Immersion and distancing during assimilation of problematic experiences in a good-outcome case of emotion-focused therapy.
Eunice BarbosaAna Bela CoutoIsabel BastoWilliam B StilesJosé Pinto-GouveiaJoão SalgadoPublished in: Psychotherapy research : journal of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (2016)
The decrease of immersion and increase of distancing associated with therapeutic improvement should not be taken as a recommendation to avoid immersion and encourage distancing. Immersion and distancing may work as coordinated aspects of the processes of psychotherapeutic change.