Provides coherent guidelines to help clinicians, researchers, and students identify, conceptualize, and treat problems in emotional behavior. They show that expression and nonexpression come in many different forms, with a wide range of personal and relational consequences. Expression can lead to self-knowledge and fuller intimacy, but it can also result in embarrassment or rejection. Conversely, nonexpression can involve a lack of opportunity to express, or problems in articulating feelings, but it can also reflect cultural values or effective coping efforts. The authors illuminate a range of problems related to both expression and nonexpression, and provide insight into how these can be addressed in individual and couple therapy.

Jeanne C. Watson, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto. She is the coeditor of the Handbook of Experiential Psychotherapy and has written numerous articles on psychotherapy process and outcome. Dr. Watson has a part-time private practice in Toronto.

I. Introduction
1. Expression, Nonexpression, and Well-Being: An Overview
II. Intrapersonal Processes
2. The Myth of Emotional Venting
3. Blind Spots and Epiphanies: Expression, Nonexpression, and Emotional Insight
4. The Shoulds, Oughts, and Musts of Emotional Behavior: Expressive Goals and Values
III. Interpersonal Processes
5. Family Socialization of Emotional Behavior
6. Men, Women, and the Language of Love
7. Telling One's Troubles: Expression of Distress in Intimate Relationships
IV. Treatment Implications
8. Expression and Nonexpression in Psychotherapy: Facilitating Emotional Understanding and Behavioral Change
9. Beyond Sadness: Therapeutic Approaches to Emotional Constriction in Depression
10. Flooding or Blunting: Vacillating Expression and Nonexpression in Bereavement and Trauma
11. Emotional Expression in Marital Therapy
12. Expression-Related Interventions in Health Psychology
V. Conclusion
13. Balance in Emotional Behavior