Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing EmotionsAnyone who has ever entrusted a troubling secret to a journal, or mourned a broken heart with a friend, knows the feeling of relief that expressing painful emotions can bring. This book presents astonishing evidence that personal self-disclosure is not only good for our emotional health, but boosts our physical health as well. Psychologist James W. Pennebaker has conducted controlled clinical research that sheds new light on the powerful mind body connection. This book interweaves his findings with insightful case studies on secret-keeping, confession, and the hidden price of silence. Filled with information and encouragement, Opening Up explains: *Why suppressing inner problems takes a devastating toll on health *How long-buried trauma affects the immune system *How writing about your problems can improve your health *Why it's never too late to heal old emotional wounds *When self-disclosure may be risky--and how to know whom to trust |
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When confronted with his heart-rate data, Warren was flabbergasted. Over the next few days, he discussed his feelings of anger and despair over the divorce with me and, later, with his parents. Although he still harbors some of ...
When confronted with his heart-rate data, Warren was flabbergasted. Over the next few days, he discussed his feelings of anger and despair over the divorce with me and, later, with his parents. Although he still harbors some of ...
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For example, one day she talked about her feelings of anger and disgust in seeing a dog drink water from a glass. Immediately after venting her feelings about this episode, Anna O. overcame her refusal to drink liquids.
For example, one day she talked about her feelings of anger and disgust in seeing a dog drink water from a glass. Immediately after venting her feelings about this episode, Anna O. overcame her refusal to drink liquids.
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Other essays disclosed the torture of a woman not able to tell her parents about her being gay, a young man's feelings of loss about the death of his dog, or the anger of three different people about their parents' divorces.
Other essays disclosed the torture of a woman not able to tell her parents about her being gay, a young man's feelings of loss about the death of his dog, or the anger of three different people about their parents' divorces.
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The key, we believe, is in the nature of anger. Those who had explored their thoughts and feelings were more likely to have come to terms with their extreme hostility toward their previous employer. Recall that these men felt betrayed ...
The key, we believe, is in the nature of anger. Those who had explored their thoughts and feelings were more likely to have come to terms with their extreme hostility toward their previous employer. Recall that these men felt betrayed ...
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Even during our initial interviews, we often found it difficult to stop the men from venting their anger. We suspect that when most of them went on interviews for new jobs, many would let down their guard and talk about how they were ...
Even during our initial interviews, we often found it difficult to stop the men from venting their anger. We suspect that when most of them went on interviews for new jobs, many would let down their guard and talk about how they were ...
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Table des matières
| 1 | |
| 12 | |
| 26 | |
| 43 | |
| 57 | |
| 73 | |
Understanding the Value of Writing | 89 |
The Social Price of Disclosure Whom to Tell and How to Listen | 104 |
The Inhibited Personality | 137 |
Inhibited Cities | 153 |
Confession in Context Therapy Religion and Brainwashing | 169 |
Beyond Traumas Writing and WellBeing | 185 |
Notes | 199 |
| 223 | |
Author Index | 239 |
Subject Index | 245 |
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anger anxiety asked assassination autonomic nervous system basic behaviors biological blood pressure brain bulimics childhood colleagues confession confronting coping Dallas death deepest thoughts depressed diaries disclosure discussed divorce effects emotions event example express Freud friends health problems heart rate high disclosers Holocaust Holocaust project homosexual immune immune system implicit values incest indicate individuals interviews issues laboratory letting-go experience linked listener lives Loma Prieta Earthquake Longview low disclosers low-level thinking major mind months Mount Saint Helens pain parents participants Pennebaker people's person physical health polygraph psychological psychotherapy questionnaire recent relationship religious conversion reported Robert Sapolsky secrets self-reflective skin conductance social someone spouses story strategy stress stressors studies suicide superficial topics survivors technique therapist therapy thoughts and feelings traumatic experiences understand unwanted thoughts upsetting experiences volcano volunteers weeks woman women writing about traumas writing or talking wrote
Informations bibliographiques
| Titre | Opening Up: The Healing Power of Expressing Emotions |
| Auteur | James W. Pennebaker |
| Éditeur | Guilford Press, 2012 |
| ISBN | 1462504841, 9781462504848 |
| Longueur | 249 pages |
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