`Mick Power is one of the more creative minds working in clinical psychology today. In this provocative and highly entertaining book he presents a compelling thesis for placing emotion at the
center of therapeutic work within the cognitive-behavioural paradigm, providing rich food for thought for students, clinical researchers and practitioners'.
Tim Dalgleish, Cognition, Emotion and Mental Health Programme, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Medical Research Council, UK
`Strange as it may seem, emotion has had little place in the standard cognitive-behavioral treatment of emotional disorders. In Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy Mick Power aims to set emotion
in its rightful place-at the centre of understanding human experience and dysfunction. He does this with scholarship and wit, interspersed with numerous illuminating clinical examples. The
result is a book that will be of great interest to clinicians of different persuasions, and students and academics in the fields of emotion, psychotherapy and psychopathology'.
Andrew MacLeod, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London
Over the past century, psychology has evolved from a discipline dominated by a focus on behaviour into one focused on cognition. However, more recently psychology has rediscovered the important
and central role that emotion plays in everything that we do.
Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy argues that it is time for a new focus in psychotherapy based on emotion. The author, Professor of Clinical Psychology and practising clinical psychologist
Mick Power, draws on the latest information about emotion in order to develop an innovative approach to the treatment of clients with emotional disorders. In doing so, he integrates relevant
work on behaviour, cognition, and emotion to provide practitioners with a new understanding of therapy. Emotion-Focused Cognitive Therapy is a timely and invaluable guide for professionals
seeking to enhance their clinical effectiveness.
