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.
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 :)
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 !
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
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.
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.
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.
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???
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 :)
Outstanding, fascinating guest and excellent questions. Thank you
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 !
Great questions/video! Nice mastery of the material; Greenberg seemed genuinely impressed with your understanding of EFT.
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
Thank you. :) Really enjoyed this.
Very good interviewing skills! He was smiling quite a bit.
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.
I like this method of therapy
Amazing interview. Thanks for sharing it. You're a great interviewer!
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.
Great interview. I really enjoyed the whole process plus the questions were really good. Keep up the good work!
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.
Great interview, thank you!
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???
Great questions!
Most amazing work... I need to talk to you🦋🕊
Interesting talk
I thought that Sue Johnson was the developer of EFT?
MUCH more enjoyable if you watch it at 1.25x speed
hi the email you provide doesn't work how do I contact you Alex I have a recommendation for you :)
Hi Andy, try again alexmagvaz@gmail.com :)
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.
Researcher and clinician, and clinician first.
@@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.
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.