Emotion-Focused Therapy for Generalized Anxiety

Jeanne C. Watson, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. As a major exponent of humanistic-experiential psychotherapy, she has contributed to the development of emotion-focused therapy, the process experiential approach. In 2001, she received the Outstanding Early Achievement Award from the International Society for Psychotherapy Research and served as president of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research from 2014 through 2015. Dr. Watson has coauthored or coedited seven books on psychotherapy and counseling, including Learning Emotion-Focused Therapy: The Process Experiential Approach to Change (2003); Expressing Emotion: Myths, Realities, and Therapeutic Strategies (1999); Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy in the 21st Century: Advances in Theory, Research and Practice (2002); Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy (1998); Process-Experiential Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Depression (2005); and most recently, Case Studies in Emotion Focused Treatment of Depression (2007), as well as more than 70 articles and chapters. She conducts trainings in emotion-focused therapy in Europe and North America and maintains a part-time private practice in Toronto. Leslie S. Greenberg, PhD, is a Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus of Psychology at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has authored the major texts on emotion-focused approaches to treatment of individuals and couples. These include the original texts Emotion in Psychotherapy (1986), Emotionally Focused Therapy for Couples (1988), Facilitating Emotional Change (1993), and Emotion Focused Therapy: Coaching Clients to Work Through Their Feelings (2002); and more recently, Emotion-Focused Therapy of Depression (2006) , Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy: The Dynamics of Emotion, Love, and Power (2008) with Jeanne Watson, and Case Formulation in Emotion-Focused Therapy (2015) with Rhonda Goldman, as well as Emotion-Focused Therapy: Theory and Practice (2010). He has published extensively on research on the process of change. Dr. Greenberg has received the Distinguished Research Career Award of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research, as well as the Carl Rogers Award and the American Psychological Association (APA) Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research. He also has received the Canadian Psychological Association Professional Award for Distinguished Contribution to Psychology as a Profession. He conducts a private practice for individuals and couples and trains people internationally in emotion-focused approaches.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Emotion-Focused Therapy Formulation of Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 2: The Role of Emotion in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 3: Treatment Framework
Chapter 4: The Therapeutic Relationship
Chapter 5: Strengthening the Vulnerable Self
Chapter 6: Working With Worry: Anxiety Splits
Chapter 7: Changing Negative Treatment of the Self: Two-Chair Dialogues
Chapter 8: Transforming Pain: Working With Empty-Chair Dialogues in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Chapter 9: Emotional Transformation and Compassionate Self-Soothing in Generalized Anxiety Disorder
References
Index
About the Authors