Attachment-based family therapy and emotion-focused therapy for unresolved anger: The role of productive emotional processing.

Psychotherapy ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary M. Diamond ◽  
Ben Shahar ◽  
Daphna Sabo ◽  
Noa Tsvieli
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Emotion Focused Therapy

Emotional processing of trauma narratives is a predictor of outcome in emotion-focused therapy for complex trauma.

Psychotherapy ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 526-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ula Khayyat-Abuaita ◽  
Sandra Paivio ◽  
Antonio Pascual-Leone ◽  
Shawn Harrington
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Complex Trauma ◽  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Emotion Focused Therapy

Differentiation of Self in the Therapist's Family of Origin

1980 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 394-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Rich
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Family Systems ◽  
Family Of Origin ◽  
Therapeutic Process ◽  
Differentiation Of Self ◽  
Family Therapists ◽  
Essential Nature ◽  
Degree Of Differentiation ◽  
High Degree

The essential nature of family therapy, the role of the therapist in the therapeutic process, and the need for family therapists to possess a high degree of differentiation of self are examined. As a prerequisite to conducting successful family systems therapy, therapists must examine their own family of origin.

Could Emotions Be Modelled through Information Processing?

2015 ◽  
pp. 63-82
Author(s):  
Ebrahim Oshni Alvandi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Environmental Variables ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Processing System ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Emotional Agents ◽  
The Brain

One way to evaluate cognitive processes in living or nonliving systems is by using the notion of “information processing”. Emotions as cognitive processes orient human beings to recognize, express and display themselves or their wellbeing through dynamical and adaptive form of information processing. In addition, humans behave or act emotionally in an embodied environment. The brain embeds symbols, meaning and purposes for emotions as well. So any model of natural or autonomous emotional agents/systems needs to consider the embodied features of emotions that are processed in an informational channel of the brain or a processing system. This analytical and explanatory study described in this chapter uses the pragmatic notion of information to develop a theoretical model for emotions that attempts to synthesize some essential aspects of human emotional processing. The model holds context-sensitive and purpose-based features of emotional pattering in the brain. The role of memory is discussed and an idea of control parameters that have roles in processing environmental variables in emotional patterning is introduced.

Neuroscience and Symbolic-Experiential Family Therapy: Roots of [Contemporary] Psychotherapy

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-145
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Roberts ◽  
Michael L. Chafin
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Memory Formation ◽  
Implicit Learning And Memory ◽  
Spontaneous Interaction ◽  
Contemporary Psychotherapy ◽  
Therapy Model ◽  
Brain Reorganization ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this article is to review the symbolic-experiential family therapy model of Carl Whitaker and apply it specifically to recent neuroscience findings. The article concludes that symbolic-experiential family therapy reflects many of the recent findings in neuroscience including the role of implicit learning and memory formation, the importance of the relationship between the couple or family and the therapist, increasing stress and anxiety in order to facilitate change, which activates the right brain, and unstructured and spontaneous interaction, which promotes brain reorganization.

scholarly journals The Behavioral Immune System Shapes Political Intuitions: Why and How Individual Differences in Disgust Sensitivity Underlie Opposition to Immigration

2017 ◽  
Vol 111 (2) ◽  
pp. 277-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
LENE AARØE ◽  
MICHAEL BANG PETERSEN ◽  
KEVIN ARCENEAUX
Keyword(s):  
Immune System ◽  
Emotional Processing ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Behavioral Immune System ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
First Time ◽  
Representative Samples

We present, test, and extend a theoretical framework that connects disgust, a powerful basic human emotion, to political attitudes through psychological mechanisms designed to protect humans from disease. These mechanisms work outside of conscious awareness, and in modern environments, they can motivate individuals to avoid intergroup contact by opposing immigration. We report a meta-analysis of previous tests in the psychological sciences and conduct, for the first time, a series of tests in nationally representative samples collected in the United States and Denmark that integrate the role of disgust and the behavioral immune system into established models of emotional processing and political attitude formation. In doing so, we offer an explanation for why peaceful integration and interaction between ethnic majority and minorities is so hard to achieve.

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