Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-339) and index.
The nature and experience of depression and its treatment -- Emotion in human functioning and depression -- Depression : a dialectical constructivist view -- Principles of working with emotion in depression -- The course of treatment in emotion-focused therapy -- The therapeutic relationship -- Case formulation for depression -- Bonding, awareness, and collaboration -- Methods for increasing awareness -- Evocation and arousal of emotion -- Evoking emotion: two-chair dialogue and hopelessness -- Evoking blocked emotion : two-chair enactments and unfinished business dialogues -- Transformation : the construction of alternatives -- Reflection and the creation of new meaning.