1. Introduction

Part One - Assumptions

2. Basic Assumptions

3. The Nature of Human Emotional Suffering

4. Understanding Emotional Healing Under Optimal Circumstances

5. Actions That Facilitate Emotional Healing

6. Emotional Growth and the Development of the Self

7. Characteristics of Mental Health

Part Two - Maps of the Mind: Making Sense of Adaptation and Pathology

8. The Cognitive Perspective

9. Schemas and Schema Theory

10. The Search for Personal Meanings: Conscious and Unconscious

11. Contributions from Humanistic Psychology

12. The Mind and the Brain: A Neurobiological Perspective

Part Three - Assessment: Understanding the Client

13. Diagnostic Maps

14. Assessing the Nature of Precipitating Events

15. Assessing the Nature of Psychological Liabilities

Part Four - Targeting Specific Problems: Treatment Strategies

16. Healthy Folks and Necessary Pain

17. Major Roadblocks: Dealing with Resistances

18. Misery Amplifiers and Unnecessary Pain

19. Making an Impact on Negative, Maladaptive Schemas

20. Repetitive, Maladaptive Interpersonal Patterns

21. Underdeveloped Sense of Self

22. Emotional Dyscontrol

23. Neurobiological Vulnerability

24. The Keys to Keeping Treatment Brief

Afterword

Appendix A

References

Index