'Nothing that feels bad is ever the last step:' The role of positive emotions in experiential work with difficult emotional experiences

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-43

  Fosha, Diana ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HEALING; HUMAN; LEISURE; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; WELLBEING;

EID: 7044263014     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.390     Document Type: Article

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