Leslie Greenberg
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Leslie Greenberg is a Canadian psychologist and one of the originators of emotion-focused therapy for individuals and couples.
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7 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 30 September 1945, Johannesburg, South Africa (opens wiqqi.app)
- Education: Engineering first; PhD in psychology, York University, 1975 (opens wiqqi.app)
- Current role: Professor emeritus of psychology, York University; director of the Emotion-Focused Therapy Clinic, Toronto (opens wiqqi.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The aim of emotion-focused therapy is to work with emotions, not to eliminate them. (opens korrents.com)
“It’s not about eliminating emotions, but working with them”
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Emotional change is best achieved by changing emotion with emotion, which makes the change more enduring. (opens korrents.com)
“Emotion-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.”
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CBT helps people cope but does not reach the core problems people have. (opens korrents.com)
“it’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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The aim of emotion-focused therapy is to work with emotions, not to eliminate them. (opens korrents.com)