PIRES, António Pazo. Emotion-focused psychoanalytic psychotherapy. []. , 48, 2, pp.114-134. ISSN 0101-4838.

This text is about a new way of doing psychoanalytic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. The exploration of emotions as a means of change. I report a change in my clinical practice in which emotion has become the focus of attention. I use a greater balance between guiding and following the patient, an attention to the markers and use of interventions for each of these markers as the systematic evocation unfolding, focusing, or the empty-chair dialogue. I describe some difficulties of integrating a more effective exploration of the emotion in a psychoanalytic model practiced for many years. Small clinical vignettes illustrate how to explore emotions.

: integration; psychoanalysis; emotion-focused therapy; systematic evocative unfolding; focusing; empty chair task.

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