Working With Narrative in Emotion-Focused Therapy: Changing Stories, Healing Lives

by Lynne E. Angus, Leslie S. Greenberg

In psychotherapy, as in life, all significant emotions are embedded in important stories, and all significant stories revolve around important emotional themes. Yet, despite the interaction between emotion and narrative processes, emotion-focused therapy (EFT) and narrative-informed therapies have evolved as separate clinical approaches. In this book, Lynne Angus and Leslie Greenberg address this gap and present a groundbreaking, empirically based model that integrates working with narrative and emotion processes in EFT.

According to Angus and Greenberg's narrative-informed approach to EFT, all successful psychotherapy entails the articulation, revision, and deconstruction of clients' maladaptive life stories in favor of more life-enhancing alternatives. Because emotions and narratives interact to form meaning and sense of self, the evocation and articulation of emotions is critical to changing life narratives.

Individual chapters describe how the interaction between emotion and narrative creates a constantly evolving sense of self; how clinicians can address both narrative and emotion processes to help clients create more adaptive, empowering meanings and sense of self; and the importance of a strong therapeutic alliance. Engaging, in-depth case studies at the end of the book illustrate how the model can be applied to treatment of depression and emotional trauma.

Genres: Narrative

170 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2011

Reviews

[Farkhondeh Nazarian · Rating 1 out of 5]

از اونجایی که ترجمه (خانم اروجنی، نشر ارجمند) به معنی واقعی کلمه افتضاح بود، خیلی نتونستم با کتاب ارتباط بگیرم.
اما در کل مطالبی بسیار کاربردی درمورد روایت‌های مراجعین بیان کرده بود. استفاده از مطالب کتاب کمک می‌کنه حتی اطرافیان خودمون رو بهتر درک کنیم و بتونیم همدلی بیشتری با اون‌ها داشته باشیم.
پ.ن: این کتاب اصلا مناسب کسانی نیست که مطالعه‌ی قبلی تو زمینه‌ی EFT ندارند.

[Pure heroine]

من ترجمه‌ی این کتاب رو از نشر ارجمند مطالعه کردم. برای منی که فقط علاقمند به مطالعه برای آشنایی با رویکرد هیجان‌مداره کتاب سختی بود. گمونم هشتاد نود درصد کتاب رو نفهمیدم. با اینحال از دو فصل اولش اون چیزی رو که باید یاد میگرفتم رو یاد گرفتم، لازم نبود کتاب رو حتما تموم کنم.

[Blaze-Pascal · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty short... combined individual compassionate listening with narrative. I guess one problem is EFT is modernist and narrative is post-modernist. Complicated.

[João · Rating 5 out of 5]

Emotion-Focused Therapy keeps developing decades since its inception, sustained by an enviable body of scientific evidence.

This book offers a major contribution by being able to embed at a core level the narrative contributions to psychotherapy.

Simply put, the authors sucessfully achieved to "painlessly" integrate narrative-informed practice into the intricate model of Emotion-Focused Therapy.

They also provide case examples to help the reader get a better grasp of the main concepts and their practical implications.

The writing style is to-the-point without failing to provide a comprehensive review and (re)conceptualization of the fundamental framework of EFT theory and practice.

An inspiring work that every student of psychology/psychotherapy and practitioner should have on their book shelf!