Roger Baker 
Emotional Processing 
Healing through Feeling

Roger Baker’s ground-breaking book, based on the research of his medical team, presents a new way of understanding emotions and new insights into handling emotional pressures, and is illustrated throughout with examples from patients in psychological therapy and from everyday life. The book is divided into 4 parts: 1) The Secret Life of Emotions: introduces the theme of the book and shows how emotional and rational lives are equally valid, 2) Dissolving Distress: looks at our second immune system, emotional processing, which helps us to absorb and break-down emotional hurts and strains, 3) Healing through Feeling: the expression of emotions for good health and well-being, 4) How to Sabotage Emotional Processing: a manual of bad practice.

Table of Content

Contents
1 A New Understanding of Emotional Healing 7
PART I
THE SECRET LIFE OF THE EMOTIONS 17
2 Pure Reason 18
3 The Language of Two Worlds 27
4 Sixth Sense 37
PART II
EMOTIONAL PROCESSING: DISSOLVING DISTRESS 49
5 The Emotional Immune System 50
6 Emotional Processing: Inside Out 58
PART III
HEALING THROUGH FEELING 73
7 The One Hard Fact in Psychology 74
8 Shell Shock 84
9 Battened Down and Bottled Up 95
PART IV
HOW TO SABOTAGE HEALING 107
10 Love and Pasta 108
11 A Pill for the Body, Soul and Spirit 120
12 Ruminating Your Life Away 132
13 Living in Harmony with Emotions 145
Appendix: The Idea Behind the Science 159
References 168
Index 173
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About the author

DR ROGER BAKER is Professor of Clinical Psychology at Bournemouth University. He has worked in a dual role as researcher and clinical psychologist at Leeds, Aberdeen, and Bournemouth Universities and in NHS Trusts specialising in Mental Health. He is the author of the highly acclaimed Understanding Panic Attacks and Understanding Trauma.