1. The Social Construction of Emotion

2. Emotional Schema Therapy: General Considerations

3. A Model of Emotional Schemas

II. Beginning Treatment

4. Initial Assessment and Interview

5. Socialization to the Emotional Schema Model

III. Specific Interventions for Emotional Schemas

6. The Centrality of Validation

7. Comprehensibility, Duration, Control, Guilt/Shame, and Acceptance

8. Coping with Ambivalence

9. Linking Emotions to Values (and Virtues)

IV. Social Emotions and Relationships

10. Jealousy

11. Envy

12. Emotional Schemas in Couple Relationships

13.Emotional Schemas andthe Therapeutic Relationship

Conclusions