These are brief notes on some of the references we have found which link in with the principles of emotion and Patterns and Discharge expounded in this manual.
#1. Learning-Based Client-Centred Therapy, David G Martin, 1972, Brooks /Cole, California.
This book illustrates from experimental data that destructive behaviour directed at self or others, learned under the goad of negative feelings, is difficult to unlearn, because the person is unable to discover that the conditions of reward or punishment have changed. The author thinks this implies a conflict model underlying neurotic behaviour. He goes on to discuss therapy based on providing support for the client in conflict situations, to enable relearning to occur.
#2. Two relatively clear statements which correspond to the Balance of Attention concept are given by Paul Dewald, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist, and Michael Holden, an associate of Janov's concerned with research into Primalling.
See p.274, Effective Principles of Psychotherapy (a paper in which well known therapists of different persuasions answer questions) in Cognitive Therapy and Research, vol. 4, no. 3, Sept. 1980.
The Sensory Window and Access to Primal Pain, Michael Holden, ch 6 in Primal Man, A Janov & E M Holden, 1977, Abacus edition, Sphere Books, London. See pages 158-159 in particular.
#3. The model of emotions used here in the manual is after that of Shibles. Emotion: The Method of Philosophical Therapy, H. Shibles, 1974, Language Press, Whitewater, Wisc. USA.
#4. "The amount of capacity available for any task facing an individual is a function of other tasks and other capacity-demanding inputs with which some fixed limit of capacity must be shared." page 182.
Talking about negative feelings arousal: "In short, the problem of stress is twofold, both the internal autonomic signals, and the conditions that generate those signals require part of the conscious capacity, and thereby interfere with the performance of same target task or skill." p.188.
Thought Processes, Consciousness, and Stress, George Mandler, in Human Stress and Cognition, Eds Vernon Hamilton & David M Waburrton, 1979, Wiley & Sons.
#5. "I suggest that joy accompanies and motivates effective responding" page 98. In a section labeled 'A speculation about success and depression' pp 96 - 99. The whole of this book is well worth reading for many themes concerned with depression and anxiety and treatment which have many parallels with the co-counselling views.
Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death, Martin Seligman, 1975, W H Freeman, San Francisco. #
6. Catharsis in Healing, Ritual, and Drama, T J Scheff, 1979, University of California Press. This is a wide-ranging book, with discussion of history and use of catharsis, and discussion of Balance of Attention in this connection. The second half of the book discusses the applications in the title.
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