Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy
One of the main objectives of psychotherapy is to address emotion dysregulation that causes pathological symptoms and distress in patients. Following psychodynamic theory, we propose that in humans, the combination of emotions plus conditioned anxiety due to traumatic attachment can lead to dysregul...
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| description | One of the main objectives of psychotherapy is to address emotion dysregulation that causes pathological symptoms and distress in patients. Following psychodynamic theory, we propose that in humans, the combination of emotions plus conditioned anxiety due to traumatic attachment can lead to dysregulated affects. Likewise, defenses can generate and maintain dysregulated affects (altogether Dysregulated Affective States, DAS). We propose the Experiential-Dynamic Emotion Regulation methodology, a framework to understand emotion dysregulation by integrating scientific evidence coming from the fields of affective neuroscience and Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy aimed at resolving DAS. This method and the techniques proposed can be integrated within other approaches. Similarities and differences with the Cognitive model of emotion regulation and cognitive-behavioral approaches are discussed within the paper. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-72c5c2784d734f0fbdbf04bc911b7ac32022-12-21T18:20:52ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782018-11-01910.3389/fpsyg.2018.02054396711Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic PsychotherapyJon Julius Frederickson0Irene Messina1Alessandro Grecucci2Washington School of Psychiatry, Washington, DC, United StatesDepartment of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua, Padova, ItalyDepartment of Psychology and Cognitive Sciences, University of Trento, Trento, ItalyOne of the main objectives of psychotherapy is to address emotion dysregulation that causes pathological symptoms and distress in patients. Following psychodynamic theory, we propose that in humans, the combination of emotions plus conditioned anxiety due to traumatic attachment can lead to dysregulated affects. Likewise, defenses can generate and maintain dysregulated affects (altogether Dysregulated Affective States, DAS). We propose the Experiential-Dynamic Emotion Regulation methodology, a framework to understand emotion dysregulation by integrating scientific evidence coming from the fields of affective neuroscience and Experiential-Dynamic Psychotherapy aimed at resolving DAS. This method and the techniques proposed can be integrated within other approaches. Similarities and differences with the Cognitive model of emotion regulation and cognitive-behavioral approaches are discussed within the paper.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02054/fullemotion regulationanxietyemotiondefense mechanismsdynamic psychotherapypsychoanalysis |
| spellingShingle | Jon Julius Frederickson Irene Messina Alessandro Grecucci Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy Frontiers in Psychology emotion regulation anxiety emotion defense mechanisms dynamic psychotherapy psychoanalysis |
| title | Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy |
| title_full | Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy |
| title_fullStr | Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy |
| title_short | Dysregulated Anxiety and Dysregulating Defenses: Toward an Emotion Regulation Informed Dynamic Psychotherapy |
| title_sort | dysregulated anxiety and dysregulating defenses toward an emotion regulation informed dynamic psychotherapy |
| topic | emotion regulation anxiety emotion defense mechanisms dynamic psychotherapy psychoanalysis |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02054/full |
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