Leslie Greenberg on Emotion-Focused Therapy: From certainty through chaos to complexity

[@lafavemark]

Great discussion. I've watched this video several times. Greenberg is so wise and his work has been so formative to me personally and to the discipline of psychology as well.

[@TheSoundOfHerSoul]

Alexandre, I love your interviews, your questions, your smile, great contact with people you talk to ! It's a pleasure to hear and see it. Thank you! Greetings from Poland :)

[@RoryAbcoe]

Can anyone point me to resources where Les discusses his idea that needs are constructed from feelings? I find it hard to conceptualise feelings pointing to anything without there being an underlying need to point towards

[@tanausu7]

Very good interviewing skills! He was smiling quite a bit.

[@jackdawcaw4514]

I like how this title is analogous to the therapeutic process, and if I may put it in Kleinian terms, analogous to a move from PS to D.

[@lafavemark]

Great questions/video! Nice mastery of the material; Greenberg seemed genuinely impressed with your understanding of EFT.

[@TheNormallyOpen]

Outstanding, fascinating guest and excellent questions. Thank you

[@khansherani]

In my case it looks to me a preverbal trauma, like I was not accepted, validated, or something wrong happened some loss happened and there is a lot of confusion around this loss and grief situation. I can guess my mother's post partem depression or loneliness lack of human contact during my infancy. That emotional imprint of loss, lack of joy, lack of welcoming into the world is feeling like a pain deep in my heart. If I feel this pain, that I am doing it since last 1 yr, welcome the pain, do breath work on the pain and then provide the love, compassion and welcoming needed for the infant...... will it resolve my emotional pain issue of last 30 yrs???

[@johandias95]

Great interview. I really enjoyed the whole process plus the questions were really good. Keep up the good work!

[@MadnessRulesYeah]

Amazing interview. Thanks for sharing it. You're a great interviewer!

[@karenflower697]

Thank you. :) Really enjoyed this.

[@Me_ThatsWho]

I'm so glad I watched this. I had a negative impression of EFT before coming to this video; my quick impression had been that it was probably 'old wine in new bottles'. However, I really like Dr Greenberg and he actually does have valuable things to add. I'll happily place Les Greenberg alongside Jay Greenberg on my bookshelf. Perhaps that may lead to a rapprochement !

[@daydreamer4902]

I have a new therapy. It is called Zoom Background Analysis. It is goal directed and uses the schema of the background used in Zoom calls to determine the expression of Ego, needs and emotions.

[@pedrobodao]

Mais uma grande entrevista. Tanto conhecimento e tanta experiência partilhada, de uma forma que permite olhar para todos estes fantásticos e apaixonados psicoterapeutas de uma forma tão humana e próxima, que nos ajuda a tornar-nos também melhores terapeutas e pessoas. Muito obrigado por tão grandioso e corajoso contributo ao mundo da psicoterapia.

[@wolfster747]

Emotional regulation is when emotions are the primary driver of thoughts and actions. We can help create balance in utilizing emotions as knowledge about ourselves that inform thoughts and behavior.

[@Jacob011]

I thought that Sue Johnson was the developer of EFT?

[@crystallsisco1617]

I like this method of therapy

[@lucindapoole4675]

Great interview, thank you!

[@bradrandel1408]

Most amazing work... I need to talk to you🦋🕊

[@bernadetteallen5415]

Great questions!

[@evangelosgiannopoulos-isar9572]

Interesting talk

[@andymcfadyen3200]

hi the email you provide doesn't work how do I contact you Alex I have a recommendation for you :)

[@alexmagalhaesvaz]

Hi Andy, try again [e-mail] :)

[@slkdfjklasasdfasdf]

MUCH more enjoyable if you watch it at 1.25x speed

[@enatp6448]

I am interested in what Les Greenberg has to say - his views on psychotherapy in general and in his reasons for being so strongly connected to emotion focused processes. He seems to have an unwavering position against cognitive and skills based approaches. I just haven't heard anything compelling enough in his interviews to convince me that this is something that doesn't have value. What I love about integration is that it recognizes that we are all individuals and that we all respond differently depending on what we are dealing with what phase of healing and growth we are in etc, etc... Les seems to be disregarding this. I can't help but wonder if that might be a reflection of his background in engineering and the fact that he is/was a researcher and not a clinician.

[@kai-leeklymchuk744]

Researcher and clinician, and clinician first.

[@Me_ThatsWho]

@@kai-leeklymchuk744 Yep. And he also clearly said somewhere in the first 11 minutes that one theoretical perspective simply cannot capture the complexity of the clinical encounter. He was thereby including EFT, CBT, and everything else in that. Further, I don't think he was ever dismissing CBT- just the primacy of cognition and the idea about 'emotional dysregulation' as the cause of d/o's.

[@wrinkledsleeves]

There is no way that a deep study of Emotion Focused therapy would leave the learner feeling as if there was a lack of integration built into the theory and practice. Integration is everywhere from Emotion schemes being a synthesis of sensorimotor, perceptual features, conceptual information, action tendency, and motivation…needs..etc. EFT is also an integration of client centered and gestalt therapies. Gestalt is all about integrating parts of the self into wholes. And that is why EFT has such a differentiated approach to emotional process guidance. Because emotions don’t all function the same. So the EFT therapist is constantly integrating different layers of human information processing as well as how the person is relating to the environment. What remains the deficiency of mainstream psychotherapy is that there is an overemphasis on errors in cognition as the primary cause pf emotional disorders. Les Greenberg is right to challenge this bias in the field and he is right to cite affective neuroscience as in support of his propagation of a more emotion centric therapy. Emotions govern much of human thought and behavior whether we wish to accept this unpopular view or not.