Emotional Processing: Healing through Feeling

by Roger Baker

Overview

Roger Baker's ground-breaking book, based on the research of his medical team, presents a new way of understanding emotions and new insights into handling emotional pressures, and is illustrated throughout with examples from patients in psychological therapy and from everyday life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780745952598
Publisher:	SPCK (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge)
Publication date:	10/19/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.12(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

DR ROGER BAKER is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist at Dorset Healthcare Mental Health Trust, Coordinator of a Research Unit at Poole Hospital specialising in mind-body research, and visiting Professor at Bournemouth Universiey. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Understanding Panic Attacks (Lion).

Table of Contents

Contents
1 A New Understanding of Emotional Healing 7
PART I
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE EMOTIONS 17
2 Pure Reason 18
3 The Language of Two Worlds 27
4 Sixth Sense 37
PART II
EMOTIONAL PROCESSING: DISSOLVING DISTRESS 49
5 The Emotional Immune System 50
6 Emotional Processing: Inside Out 58
PART III
HEALING THROUGH FEELING 73
7 The One Hard Fact in Psychology 74
8 Shell Shock 84
9 Battened Down and Bottled Up 95
PART IV
HOW TO SABOTAGE HEALING 107
10 Love and Pasta 108
11 A Pill for the Body, Soul and Spirit 120
12 Ruminating Your Life Away 132
13 Living in Harmony with Emotions 145
Appendix: The Idea Behind the Science 159
References 168
Index 173
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Editorial Reviews

Ground-breaking book offering a new psychological approach to emotions

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