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The centrality of emotion in unifying and accelerating psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Magnavita Jeffrey J.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/jclp.20250
Subject(s) - psychology , psychotherapist , centrality , modalities , session (web analytics) , personality , treatment modality , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , medicine , social science , mathematics , surgery , combinatorics , sociology , world wide web
An array of treatment modalities, formats, and methods show promise in increasing the affective experience of the patient and thus potentially accelerating the course of psychotherapy through a coherent framework. A unified framework allows clinicians to select from various formats and methods and to use relational factors to maximize treatment potency. The treatment of a patient who had personality disturbance, chronic depression, obsessive‐compulsive disorder, and road rage illustrates several unifying principles and demonstrates that emotional experiences and their processing often lead to beneficial outcomes. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol: In Session 62: 585–596, 2006.