Editorial: Advances in Emotion Regulation: From Neuroscience to Psychotherapy

Grecucci, Alessandro; Frederickson, Jon; Job, Remo

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00985

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“…Our study is the first to show an effect of modulation over LPP due to a not commonly studied strategy defined as distancing. Although distancing was originally proposed by Gross [53] to be a cognitive strategy, we believe that it should be considered not a pure cognitive strategy (no explicit thought generation, nor rethinking effort), but rather an experiential strategy as it involves a different way of relating to the stimuli (see also [1,2,61]). Research has shown that adopting a mindful, or unemotional self-observation attitude, can be a useful mean to reduce emotional reactivity to negative information comparable to, or even more efficient than, cognitive strategies [61][62][63].…”

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“…In daily life, we usually express emotions by means of words, and we react with emotions to other people Emotion regulation and ERP words. A case in point, is what happens during a psychotherapy session where the clinician uses language to elicit and regulate patients' emotions, and to understand the emotional states of patients by listening to their words [4,1,2]. Freud defined psychotherapy "a cure through words" [5]: a cure to help patients express and possibly regulate linguistic contents.…”

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Seeing emotions, reading emotions: behavioral and ERPs evidence of the effect of strategy and of regulation for pictures and words.

Grecucci

Sulpizio

et al. 2018

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¶ These authors contributed equally to this work. AbstractBackground: Whilst there has been extensive study of the mechanisms underlying the effect of regulation for the emotions elicited by pictures, the ability and the mechanisms beyond the regulation of words remains to be clarified. Similarly, the effect of strategy when applying a regulatory process is still poorly explored. The present study seeks to elucidate these issues comparing the effect of regulation and of strategy to both neutral and emotional words and pictures. Methodology/Principal Findings: Thirty young adults observed and took the distance from unpleasant and neutral pictures and words while their subjective ratings and ERPs were recorded. At a behavioral level, participants successfully regulated the arousal and the valence of both pictures and words. At a neural level, unpleasant pictures produced an increase in the late positive potential modulated during the regulate condition. Unpleasant linguistic stimuli elicited a posteriornegativity as compared to neutral stimuli, but no effect of regulation on ERP was detectable. More importantly, the effect of strategy independently of stimulus type, produced a significant larger Emotion regulation and ERP Stimulus Preceding Negativity. Dipole reconstruction localized this effect in the middle frontal areas of the brain. Conclusions:As such, these new psychophysiological findings might help to understand how pictures and words can be regulated by distancing in daily life and clinical contexts, and the neural bases of the effect of strategy for which we suggest an integrative model.

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Seeing emotions, reading emotions: behavioral and ERPs evidence of the effect of strategy and of regulation for pictures and words.

Grecucci

Sulpizio

et al. 2018

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“…Although some parallels can be made between ST strategies and techniques and Gross cognitive model of emotion regulation (CER) (see Fassbinder et al, 2016), we believe a Dynamic-Experiental model of Emotion Regulation model (EDER, Grecucci et al, 2015b, in press) may better fit ST methodology. According to the CER model, emotions are generated according to a precise sequence in which an individual exposed to a situation: (1) engages it; (2) attends to a particular aspect of the situation; (3) interprets the event; (4) experiences an emotional response with a behavioral (action tendency), emotional, and physiological arousal; and (5) modulates that response.…”

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“…Within this model and these therapies, emotion dysregulation is treated through behavioral methods, attentional methods, cognitive methods and mindfulness and acceptance methods. The Experiential-Dynamic Emotion Regulation model (Grecucci et al, 2015b, in press; see also Campos et al, 2004 for a similar account) claims that events trigger: innate emotional responses with inborn adaptive action tendencies which precede cognition (temporal and neuroanatomical primacy) (Grecucci et al, 2016). Once elicited, emotions have a duration and intensity proportional to the stimulus and automatically self-regulate.…”

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Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Dadomo

Grecucci

Giardini³

et al. 2016

Front. Psychol.

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The term emotional dysregulation refers to an impaired ability to regulate unwanted emotional states. Scientific evidence supports the idea that emotional dysregulation underlies several psychological disorders as, for example: personality disorders, bipolar disorder type II, interpersonal trauma, anxiety disorders, mood disorders and post-traumatic stress disorder. Emotional dysregulation may derive from early interpersonal traumas in childhood. These early traumatic events create a persistent sensitization of the central nervous system in relation to early life stressing events. For this reason, some authors suggest a common endophenotypical origin across psychopathologies. In the last 20 years, cognitive behavioral therapy has increasingly adopted an interactive-ontogenetic view to explain the development of disorders associated to emotional dysregulation. Unfortunately, standard Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) methods are not useful in treating emotional dysregulation. A CBT-derived new approach called Schema Therapy (ST), that integrates theory and techniques from psychodynamic and emotion focused therapy, holds the promise to fill this gap in cognitive literature. In this model, psychopathology is viewed as the interaction between the innate temperament of the child and the early experiences of deprivation or frustration of the subject’s basic needs. This deprivation may lead to develop early maladaptive schemas (EMS), and maladaptive Modes. In the present paper we point out that EMSs and Modes are associated with either dysregulated emotions or with dysregulatory strategies that produce and maintain problematic emotional responses. Thanks to a special focus on the therapeutic relationship and emotion focused-experiential techniques, this approach successfully treats severe emotional dysregulation. In this paper, we make several comparisons between the main ideas of ST and the science of emotion regulation, and we present how to conceptualize pathological phenomena in terms of failed regulation and some of the ST strategies and techniques to foster successful regulation in patients.

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“…An embodied therapist is required to explicitly use experiential dynamic techniques for co-regulation that either up or down regulates the client. By the therapist responding to the client in a varied way the client returns towards a homeostatic balance and the interaction is contained within healthy limits [136,141]. At the third processing level, there is differentiation between explicit and implicit emotional regulation for the client.…”

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Embodied Cognition and the Direct Induction of Affect as a Compliment to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

Pietrzak

Lohr

Jahn

et al. 2018

Behavioral Sciences

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We make the case for the possible integration of affect experience induced via embodiment techniques with CBT for the treatment of emotional disorders in clinical settings. Theoretically we propose a possible integration of cognitive behavioural theory, neuroscience, embodied cognition and important processes of client change outcomes such as the therapeutic alliance to enhance client outcomes. We draw from evidence of bidirectional effects between embodiment modes of bottom-up (sensory-motor simulations giving rise to important basis of knowledge) and top-down (abstract mental representations of knowledge) processes such as CBT in psychotherapy. The paper first describes the dominance and success of CBT for the treatment of a wide range of clinical disorders. Some limitations of CBT, particularly for depression are also outlined. There is a growing body of evidence for the added value of experiential affect-focused interventions combined with CBT. Evidence for the embodied model of cognition and emotion is reviewed. Advantages of embodiment is highlighted as a complimentary process model to deepen the intensity and valence of affective experience. It is suggested that an integrated embodiment approach with CBT enhances outcomes across a wide range of emotional disorders. A description of our embodiment method integrated with CBT for inducing affective experience, emotional regulation, acceptance of unwanted emotions and emotional mastery is given. Finally, the paper highlights the importance of the therapeutic alliance as a critical component of the change process. The paper ends with a case study highlighting some clinical strategies that may aid the therapist to integrate embodiment techniques in CBT that can further explore in future research on affective experience in CBT for a wider range of clinical disorders.

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Editorial: Advances in Emotion Regulation: From Neuroscience to Psychotherapy

Cited by 45 publications

References 13 publications

Seeing emotions, reading emotions: behavioral and ERPs evidence of the effect of strategy and of regulation for pictures and words.

Seeing emotions, reading emotions: behavioral and ERPs evidence of the effect of strategy and of regulation for pictures and words.

Schema Therapy for Emotional Dysregulation: Theoretical Implication and Clinical Applications

Embodied Cognition and the Direct Induction of Affect as a Compliment to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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