Emotions and Needs

by Dawn Freshwater

Overview

Through the centrality of the concepts of needs and emotions, this volume describes and discusses issues that are fundamental to psychotherapy. As an alternative to classifying modalities of psychotherapy (and the way in which they understand needs and emotions) by their author, era or underpinning philosophy, this book focuses instead on the emotional patterning of psychotherapy. The book explores need and emotion in relation to what patients bring to therapy and what subsequently facilitates effective engagement. Examining ways of understanding the manifestation of needs and emotions, the authors bring differing therapeutic schools of thought together in contemporary models of integrative psychotherapy which draw upon the transpersonal, postmodern and poststructural.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335208012
Publisher:	Open University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2002
Series:	Core Concepts in Therapy
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.28(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.46(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

	Series editor's preface	vii
	Preface and acknowledgements	x
1	Needs and emotions	1
	Introduction	1
	Rationality versus emotionality	5
	Need, emotion and embodiment	6
	The therapeutic task	8
	Needs and emotions in a cultural context	11
	Summary	13
2	Emotional sources	15
	Introduction	15
	Phases of the alliance	16
	A first meeting	19
	Attachment, loss and attunement: the dynamics of early anxiety	20
	Trauma, failure and non-being	26
	Empathic failure with Susan: love and hate	32
	Intrapsychic and environmental factors	36
	Complexes and coexes	38
	Collective and cultural emotions and needs	41
	Summary	45
3	The emotional encounter	47
	Introduction	47
	Dangerous liaisons	48
	Awareness of needs and motivation for change	51
	Entering the social world	54
	Adjustment versus liberation	55
	Encounter with the false self	56
	Shedding the false self	58
	Developing emotional literacy through authentic awareness	62
	Engaging the emotions and needs: guilt, pride and shame	64
	Power, sexuality and potency	69
	Power, authority and identity	70
	Susan encountering Susan	71
	Summary: the social self	74
	Emotional maturation through communication	75
4	Emotional distillation	78
	Introduction	78
	Prepersonal and transpersonal needs and emotions	79
	Mid-life: anxiety, grieving and meaning	84
	Desperately seeking Susan	88
	Initiation, descent and liminality	92
	Despair, hate and love	93
	Emotions and needs: the character of the therapeutic relationship	94
	Love, Eros and the heart	97
	The Return	104
	Summary	107
5	Emotions and integration	109
	Introduction	109
	Summarizing	111
	Theoretical deconstructions	115
	Endings: emotions and needs at the point of completing	117
	Implications for training and supervision	120
	Epilogue: a deconstructive dialogue	121
	Further reading	127
	Bibliography	136
	Index	145

Editorial Reviews

Aimed at students and clinicians, this text combines aspects of different therapeutic schools of thought into contemporary models of integrative psychotherapy which draw upon the transpersonal, postmodern, and poststructural. Freshwater and Robertson explore need and emotion in relation to what patients bring to therapy and what subsequently facilitates effective engagement in the therapeutic alliance. The authors are both registered psychotherapists working in Britain. Distributed in the U.S. by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR