Emotion, Disclosure, and Health

Download or read book Emotion, Disclosure, and Health written by James W. Pennebaker and published by Amer Psychological Assn. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Emotion, Disclosure and Health" addresses some of the basic issues of psychology and psychotherapy: how people respond to emotional upheavals, why they respond the way they do, and why translating emotional events into language increases physical and mental health. Drawing on work in clinical, social, personality, and health psychology, as well as medical anthropology, the authors address these issues, drawing some stimulating conclusions about how an understanding of disclosure and health may be applied in clinically useful ways.