Abstract
This review presents a book that brings a fresh perspective on emotional disorders. The author of the book starts from renowned models in psychological counseling and psychotherapy and identifies the need for a different focus on factors that lead to vulnerability, namely the embodied hot cognition. Each chapter of the book carefully indicates the current state of research in the field (hot cognitions, distorted hot cognition, stress-related neuroadaptations, disturbed motivation, irrational beliefs), including recent neuropsychological findings. The final chapter presents an evidence-based treatment of emotional disorders. The book could be challenging for the beginners in psychological counseling, but also a delight for professionals in this field.
Highlights
This review presents a book that brings a fresh perspective on emotional disorders
Starting from renowned models that focus on the relations between cognition, emotion and behavior, the author searched for processes identified in affective neurosciences that are considered vulnerability factors in psychological treatment
He concludes that rigid appraisals are core psychological vulnerabilities to emotional disorders and he suggests a new line of guidance for psychological interventions
Summary
This review presents a book that brings a fresh perspective on emotional disorders. The author of the book starts from renowned models in psychological counseling and psychotherapy and identifies the need for a different focus on factors that lead to vulnerability, namely the embodied hot cognition. Book review of “Embodied hot cognitive vulnerability to emotional disorders. The book focuses on a new way of understanding and treating the vulnerability to emotional disorders.
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