CONTENTS

  1. Title Page
  2. Praise for The Practice of Embodying Emotions
  3. Copyright
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
    1. What This Book Is About
    2. The Development of Emotional Embodiment Work
    3. Outline of the Book
  6. Part I: Overview
    1. 1: The Beginning
      1. Petra, the Voice, and the Panic Attacks
      2. Connie, the Electrocution, and the Migraines
    2. 2: Variations in Emotional Embodiment Work
      1. Emotion: Level, Intensity, Depth, Width, and Duration
      2. Case Study: Working with Borderline Emotional States
      3. Sally, Sadness, and Asthma
      4. Sabine, Crying, and Migraines
      5. Affect Tolerance, Symptom Threshold, Level of Body Expansion, and Formation of Psychophysiological Symptoms
      6. Emotional Embodiment Work in Long-Term Treatment
      7. Steven and His Flying Phobia: A Long-Term Treatment
    3. 3: The Contribution of Emotional Embodiment to Working with Individual, Collective, and Intergenerational Traumas
      1. Trauma and Emotional Embodiment Work
      2. Anita: A Woman Who Could Not Sleep without the Lights on at Night
      3. Intergenerational Traumas
      4. Intergenerational Collective Traumas
    4. 4: Diverse Benefits of Emotional Embodiment in Various Clinical Settings
      1. Improvement in Diverse Outcomes from Emotional Embodiment Work in Different Therapy Modalities
      2. Emotional Outcomes
      3. Cognitive and Behavioral Outcomes
      4. Examples of Improved Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes from Emotional Embodiment Work
      5. Physical Outcomes
      6. Relationship Outcomes
      7. Spiritual Outcomes
      8. Summary of Cases Presented in Part I
      9. When Does Emotional Embodiment Not Work?
  7. Part II: Theory
    1. 5: The Physiology of Emotion
      1. Why Emotions Are Not Commonly Experienced throughout the Brain and Body Physiology
      2. Emotions Are Complex
      3. The James-Lange Theory: The Body Is Necessary for the Generation of Emotion
      4. The Cannon-Bard Theory: The Body Is Not Needed for the Generation of Emotion
      5. How Modern Neuroscience Put the Body Back at the Center of Emotional Experience
      6. How the Brain Gathers Information from the Body
      7. How the Brain Generates Emotions from Body Experience
      8. How Emotions Are Constructed from Present as Well as Past Body Experience
      9. How Language Is Involved in the Construction of Emotional Experiences
      10. How Emotional Experiences Can Vary across Individuals, Families, and Cultures
      11. How We Communicate Our Emotional States to Each Other
      12. How We Might Also Learn about Emotions from Each Other Directly through “Resonance”
      13. The Hard Science That Reestablished the Role of the Body in Emotional Experience
      14. Can the Brain Generate Emotion on Its Own?
      15. Conclusion
    2. 6: Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
      1. The New Science of Embodied Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
      2. The Role of the Body and the Environment in Cognition
      3. How the Body Plays a Role in Learning
      4. Learning the Alphabet and the Law of Inertia
      5. Learning through Psychomotor Movement
      6. Let’s Go Shopping in the Netherlands!
      7. Hindered Body Implies Hindered Cognition
      8. How Lack of Emotional Capacity Can Compromise the Body’s Cognition and Behavior
      9. How Embodying Emotion Affects Cognition
      10. Emotion and Behavior
      11. The Simultaneity and Sequentiality of Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
      12. Summary
    3. 7: Physiological Dynamics Involved in Generating and Defending against Emotional Experiences
      1. The Concept of Physiological Defenses against Emotions and Other Psychological Experiences
      2. Defense Mechanisms as a Coping Strategy
      3. Physiological Dynamics Involved in Generating or Defending against Emotional Experiences
    4. 8: Emotional Embodiment and Affect Tolerance
      1. The Basic Physiology of Pleasant and Unpleasant Emotional Experiences
      2. A Simple Model of the Physiology of Regulation and Dysregulation
      3. The Effects of Physiological Defenses against Emotions on the Physiology of Regulation
      4. How Undoing of Physiological Defenses against Emotions and Expanding the Emotional Experience in the Physiology Make It Easier to Process Unresolved Emotional Experiences
      5. Energy Psychology’s Take on Why Expanding Emotional Experiences in the Physiology Makes It Easier to Tolerate Them
      6. Why Unresolved Childhood Experiences Are Harder to Tolerate
      7. Other Factors That Contribute to Affect Tolerance
      8. Affect Tolerance, Symptom Threshold, Level of Body Expansion, and Formation of Psychophysiological Symptoms
    5. 9: Different Types of Emotions
      1. Finding Emotion
      2. A Broader Definition of Emotions
      3. The Basic Emotions Approach
      4. The Dimensional Approach to Emotions
      5. The Constructionist Approach to Emotions
      6. Contrast between the Basic Emotions Approach and Constructionist Models of Emotion
      7. A More Expansive View of Basic Emotions
      8. The Missing Emotions: Simple and Complex Sensorimotor Emotions
      9. Facial Affect System
      10. Bringing It All Together
  8. Part III: Practice: The Four Steps of Emotional Embodiment
    1. 10: The Situation
    2. 11: The Emotion
      1. Providing Support for Emotions
      2. Sympathy and Empathy
      3. Other Ways of Supporting Emotions
      4. Working with Innate Defenses against Unpleasant Emotions
      5. Psychological Defenses against Emotions
      6. Working with Psychological Defenses against Emotions
      7. Simple Self-Inquiry for Self-Help
      8. Conclusion
    3. 12: The Expansion
      1. General Strategies for Expansion
      2. The Body in Parts and Layers
      3. Simple Tools for Expansion
      4. Simple Strategies for Local Expansion
      5. Simple Strategies for Area-to-Area Expansion
      6. Area-Specific Self-Touch Strategies
      7. Expansion across Layers of the Brain and Body Physiology
      8. Some Considerations regarding Expansion
    4. 13: The Integration
      1. What Is Integration?
      2. Uses of Integration
      3. Positive Developments from Embodying Emotion
      4. Integration in Different Stages of Emotional Embodiment
      5. A Seven-Step Protocol for Embodying Emotion That Includes Integration
      6. Ordering of the Four Steps
    5. 14: Interpersonal Resonance
      1. Interpersonal Resonance: An Alternative Method of Information Exchange
      2. The Scientific Basis of Interpersonal Resonance
      3. Interpersonal Resonance over Longer Distances
      4. Countertransference and Resonance
      5. Resonance in Mutually Regulating Systems
      6. The Practice of Interpersonal Resonance in Three Steps
      7. Issues in Working in Resonance
      8. The Archetypal Basis of Resonance?
    6. Conclusion: The Future
      1. Generation versus Experience of Emotion
      2. The Projection Hypothesis and the Information Transfer Hypothesis
      3. Quantum Physics, Quantum Psychology, and Energy Psychology in the West
      4. Eastern Psychology
    7. Appendix A: Two Lists of Emotions
    8. Endnotes
      1. 1. The Beginning
      2. 2. Variations in Emotional Embodiment Work
      3. 3. The Contribution of Emotional Embodiment to Working with Individual, Collective, and Intergenerational Traumas
      4. 4. Diverse Benefits of Emotional Embodiment in Various Clinical Settings
      5. 5. The Physiology of Emotion
      6. 6. Cognition, Emotion, and Behavior
      7. 7. Physiological Dynamics Involved in Generating and Defending against Emotional Experiences
      8. 8. Emotional Embodiment and Affect Tolerance
      9. 9. Different Types of Emotions
      10. 10. The Situation
      11. 11. The Emotion
      12. 12. The Expansion
      13. 14. Interpersonal Resonance
      14. Conclusion: The Future
      15. Appendix A: Two Lists of Emotions
    9. Index
    10. About the Author
    11. About North Atlantic Books

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