Leslie Greenberg
Psychologist and Distinguished Research Professor at York University, Toronto; pioneer of emotion-focused therapy (EFT).
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Their wordsIt’s not about eliminating emotions, but working with them
↗Contribution to psychotherapy garners professor a major awardyorku.ca
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Their wordsEmotion-Focused Therapy is based on the principle that emotional change is best achieved by changing emotion with emotion, rather than with understanding or rationality, and this results in more enduring change.
↗Contribution to psychotherapy garners professor a major awardyorku.ca
- 18 months earlier
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Their wordsit’s not an in-depth approach to how humans function. It’s good at helping people cope, but not really good at dealing with the core problems people have.
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Their wordsEFT focuses on helping people become aware of emotions, express their emotions in the right way at the right time, learn to tolerate and regulate them, and to reflect on them to make sense of them and transform them
- 6 years earlier
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Cognitive-behavioural therapy, being rational, tends to be a more masculine mode of therapy.
Their wordsThe cognitive-behavioural model, in being more rational, tends to be a more masculine mode of therapy.
↗York U psychology prof pioneering new wave of therapy tailored to women’s unique needsnews.yorku.ca
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Feelings people are told not to feel are stored inside, and a later loss can make them break down.
Their wordsPeople store all of these things inside and then suddenly, something happens in their lives – maybe the loss of a job, for example – and they totally break down.
↗York U psychology prof pioneering new wave of therapy tailored to women’s unique needsnews.yorku.ca
- 4 days earlier
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Their wordsCognitive behavioural therapy aims to change the way we think about our emotions. It’s very much focused on regulating or suppressing painful feelings, which can be damaging