Ambivalence in emotion-focused therapy for depression: The maintenance of problematically dominant self-narratives

Ribeiro, António P.; Mendes, Inês; Stiles, William B.; Angus, Lynne; Sousa, Inês; Gonçalves, Miguel M.

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Ambivalence can be understood as a cyclical movement between an emerging narrative novelty-an Innovative Moment (IM)-and a return to a problematically dominant self-narrative. The return implies that the IM, with its potential for change is devalued right after its emergence. Our goal is to test the hypothesis that the probability of the client expressing such form of ambivalence decreases across treatment in good-outcome cases but not in poor-outcome cases.