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Empathy | Empathy forms the basis of the therapeutic work in emotion-focused therapy as a technique and the fundament of the therapeutic relationship. Different forms of empathy play an important role in the shaping of the therapeutic relationship, affect regulation, deconstruction and the establishment of positive behavior towards the self. |
Focusing | Focusing is a therapeutic technique to help expand the cognitive memories by the corresponding bodily reactions and thereby activate affective schemes usually arising in problematic situations. The goal is to look at current behavior in a larger context and recognize potential relationships to past experiences. |
Two-chair work | The two-chair dialogue is used for confrontational processes e.g. self-evaluative splits, anxiety-splits and hopelessness splits where the patient operates alternating from both chairs. The main aim of two-chair work is an increase in self-compassion. |
Empty-chair work | An indication for the empty-chair work is unfinished business with a significant other. The significant other can be imagined in the empty chair and contacted. The objective is a change in emotional schemes concerning the significant other. |