Change in Emotion and Mental Health

This book summarizes how awareness of one's emotions, emotion regulation, emotion appraisal, emotionally laden memories, and emotional competencies influence mental health. Each component is discussed with regard to mechanisms, development, and their impact on psychotherapy. The first part of the book discusses theories linking emotional processes, psychopathology, and mental health. The second part of the book discusses the developmental pathways of change in emotional processes over the lifespan. The third part of the book discusses pathways of change in emotional processes during psychotherapy and includes different forms of treatment of psychological disorders.- Reviews how emotion affects mental health and vice versa- Identifies how emotional processing changes during psychotherapy- Examines emotion awareness and understanding, appraisal and reappraisal, regulation, memories, and emotion competencies and transformation- Includes theory and research

About the Author

Andrea Samson is Professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Unidistance Suisse and a scientific collaborator in special education at the University of Fribourg (both Switzerland). She is passionate about better understanding positive emotions, humor, and emotion regulation in people with and without developmental disorders (e.g., autism spectrum disorders and Williams syndrome). With her team, she is creating tools including board games to support the development of emotional competencies.

David Sander is Full Professor in the Department of Psychology (FPSE) at the University of Geneva where he holds the Chair for the Psychology of Emotion, and where he is the head of the Laboratory for the study of Emotion Elicitation and Expression (E3 Lab). Since 2012, he is also the Director of the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences (http://www.affective-sciences.org), which is located at the Campus Biotech in Geneva.

Ueli Kramer, PhD, is Professor for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, psychotherapy researcher and clinical psychotherapist according to Federal Law, Director of the Institute of Psychotherapy, at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds an adjunct appointment at the Department of Psychology, University of Windsor, Canada. His research focuses on process and outcome in psychotherapy, in particular the mechanisms of change in treatments of personality disorders, and case formulation in personality disorders. Dr. Kramer has published over 180 scientific contributions, and ten books. He is a broadly trained clinician, author and editor, working from an integrative psychotherapy perspective. Dr. Kramer is Past President of the European Society for Psychotherapy Research (EU-SPR) and current President of the European Society for the Study of Personality Disorders (ESSPD). Dr. Kramer’s research has been supported by a number of grants, and has been recognized by the Inger Salling Foundation, the Society for Psychotherapy Research, the Hamburg GePS Society for Personality Disorders, the AEMD Marina Picasso Foundation and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration.