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Emotion-focused therapy with a middle-aged woman suffering from depression
- Format:
- Video
- Author/Creator:
- Paivio, Sandra C., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Depression, Mental.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Emotion-focused therapy.
- Depression.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Psychotherapy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Depression.
- Interpersonal Relations.
- Psychotherapy.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films
- Educational films
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 streaming video file (49 min., 46 sec.))
- Place of Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] American Psychological Association 2015
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Dr. Sandra C. Paivio conducts an emotion-focused therapy session with a middle-aged woman suffering from depression. In the beginning of the session, Dr. Paivio and the client delve into the client's childhood experiences of physical abuse from her mother, sexual abuse from a friend of her father's, and emotional abuse and neglect from her stepmother and father. Together, Dr. Paivio and the client discuss the effects of these experiences including the client's inability to trust, to experience any sort of happiness, or to become part of a caring, intimate relationship. The client is motivated to change so that she can offer her children the happy childhood she was not afforded, and so that this pattern of maltreatment is no longer passed through the generations. In order to get the client in touch with her emotions, Dr. Paivio uses empty-chair technique to have the client talk to her childhood self. As the client tells her childhood self that she deserved more happiness and fewer problems, she is able to experience painful emotions that she had not been in touch with previously. After the exercise, the client realizes she has previously coped with her depression by shutting down her pain and becoming numb to her emotions. However, now the client realizes that addressing her emotions from her painful past could help her recover in ways she had not thought possible
- Notes:
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- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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