How can systemic approaches be made significantly more effective, especially for the challenges of individual psychotherapy? What additional methods and perspectives are required to change disorder-specific personality patterns in a targeted, solution-oriented and sustainable manner? Michael Raisch gives emotions as a transformative force an important place in the systemic theoretical structure and thus expands the therapeutic possibilities. He explains the basics of emotion-based work and shows how experience-oriented approaches can enrich systemic practice. Michael Raisch presents procedures such as schema therapy, emotion-focused therapy and inner-child work in detail and uses numerous case studies to explain how a new emotional understanding enables resilient and self-care experiences.