Two of America's leading psychologists, Jeffrey E. Young, Ph.D., and Janet S. Klosko, Ph.D., show readers how to free themselves from negative life patterns. Written with compassion as well as clinical insight, this thought-provoking book guides readers through the process of identifying "life traps." For example, "Do you put the needs of others before your own? Are you drawn into relationships with people who are self-centered, cold to you, misunderstand you, or use you? Do you feel inadequate compared to people around you?" Followed by an engaging discussion that makes use of case studies, this book can help people change their lives by stopping the cycle of self-destruction.
| ||||||||||||||||||
Book Description
Frequently Bought Together
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Several of the most painful petards upon which people become hoisted during an unhappy childhood are neatly dispatched here by two cognitive therapists, who attack 11 common "lifetraps"--destructive patterns that underlie a variety of emotional problems. Young, director of New York City's Cognitive Therapy Center and a faculty member of the Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, and Klosko, co-director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island, ably demonstrate how to deal with issues of abandonment, dependence, trust, social rejection, emotional deprivation, failure and vulnerability. They provide meaningful case histories, perceptive descriptions, diagnostic tests and a variety of nugget-sized, easily understood lists detailing the causes, danger signs and effects of negative impulses and actions, as well as ways to short-circuit them.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The authors, both cognitive psychotherapists, identify 11 common "lifetraps," which they define as repetitive, destructive behavior patterns associated with a negative self-image. Using illustrations from case studies, the authors describe each lifetrap, discuss its origins in childhood experience, and provide a questionnaire for self-assesment. They then offer a program for change using techniques ranging from experiential (getting in touch with your inner child) to cognitive (writing a "case" against your lifetrap) and behavioral (identifying specific behaviors to be changed). Recommended for popular psychology collections.
- Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
- Lucille Boone, San Jose P.L., Cal.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
More About the Authors
Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
83 of 84 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those of us who have read endless books on Cognitive / Bahaviour approaches to depression, anxiety and personality disorders, this one is most welcome: First of all, it is not simplistic, naive and patronising, like it often is with self help books. Second, the authors can empathise and demonstrate knowledge of 'what it feels like'. Third, the book is not solely based on the main principle of cognitive therapy that changing your thinking is the first step to changing your emotions. The authors describe how learning patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving in childhood can affect adult life; these patterns, often hidden under totally different circumstances, appear again and again. The authors make this pattern abstraction and repetition very clear, and suggest ways that this can be broken. This is the popular book version of the authors' research on schema theory; it is a very balanced book, addressing emotions and thoughts in a way that the dry cognitive therapy approach cannot achieve. It has been the most helpful book to me to date, and I strongly recommend it to anyone who has had enough of naive readings and is seriously looking for explanations, answers and suggestions.
50 of 52 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Even though this book was originally published in 1993 and Schema Therapy has evolved further (which is what this book covers), the information is just as valuable today. This is an easy-to-read book that helps you identify limiting patterns or life traps (schemas) that originated in childhood and adolescence. Are you extremely anxious in social settings? Do you worry unrealistically about your health? Do you feel that you are essentially flawed, worthless, or incompetent? Do you become extremely upset when someone close to you disagrees with you? Do you find it difficult or impossible to form healthy relationships? Do you repeatedly get involved with people who abuse you? Do you avoid relationships? These and many other patterns are covered in this book, along with a technology for identifying yours and how to heal them. The first step is to recognize your life traps, which this book assists you in doing through detailed questionaires. You also learn about your misguided attempts to cope, which actually maintain the life traps. Then the author assists you in challenging these limiting patterns via various cognitive, behavioral, and experiential strategies. Highly recommended!!! --Fred P. Gallo, PhD, author of Energy Psychology: Explorations at the Interface of Energy, Cognition, Behavior, and Health, Second Edition (Innovations in Psychology), Energy Tapping, and Energy Tapping for Trauma: Rapid Relief from Post-Traumatic Stress Using Energy Psychology
39 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I love this book. I have read many books in my efforts to heal from anxiety/fear/paranoia, depression, and a poor self-image. There are many books that have helped me, and this one is in the Top 10. I am happy to say that I no longer suffer from those problems! I credit the books I've read, changing my thought patterns, my voyage of personal inner growth/soul-searching/discovery, making changes in my lifestyle, and getting away from people in my life who were toxic/negative/abusive. This book made me realize that some "old wounds" I thought I had recovered from ... had not fully healed yet. It also illuminated some wounds I hadn't thought about before, and provided ways to try to heal from them. I found this book to be very touching. The authors' insight and empathy is commendable.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
"Know Thyself" Schema Therapy for BPD based on Young's Work
This isn't exactly a self-help book in the cotton candy way most are written for readers with little understanding of psychological concepts. Read more
Published 27 days ago by Funky Socks
A Compelling Introduction to a Happier Life
Reinventing Your Life is an eminently readable yet sophisticated guide to understanding emotional and behavioral patterns or "lifetraps," which are developed in childhood, largely... Read more
Published 2 months ago by John Gasiewski
Solid and factual
In some sense I found it a touch text-booky, and the title made me reticent (it felt too self-helpy), but I have to say that I continued reading it to the end (skipping just a few... Read more
Published 4 months ago by M
Great book for reinventing your life
As author of a book on spirituality, "Oracle of the Generous Heart," I've often been asked questions about how to begin evolving spiritually by people struggling in emotionally... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Paulson
Great Book, Great Buy!
I purchased the book Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthrough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again at the suggestion of my psychiatrist. Read more
Published 5 months ago by Johnnie Bullens
Reinventing Your Life
My psychological counselor asked me to read this book and suggested getting it from Amazon. After I read it and accomplished all I could by doing exercises in the book and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Doreen Cantrell
Effective & Multi-Purpose Self-Help Book
Self-help books tend to be very broad (e.g., self-esteem) or very specific (e.g., depression, panic attacks). Read more
Published 8 months ago by Walter Foddis
Lifetrap awareness
"Reinventing your Life" Young et al. is my most used client-borrowing resource when they are having difficulties identifying their unhelpful schemas. Read more
Published 12 months ago by sharone
A Profound philosophy, I put it up there with CBT.
Schema therapy and CBT chaged my life! I wish the principles in this book had been included in CBT for dummies, then CBT for dummies would have truly been the greatest book of all... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Joseph
Engaging
This book has 355 pgs, 17 chapters, references and an index. The 2nd chapter contains a questionaire that zeros in on negative patterns in your life called lifetraps. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Keren Vedder
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
Are you repeatedly drawn into relationships with people who are cold to you? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unrelenting standards, emotional deprivation, social exclusion, subjugation lifetrap, other lifetraps, lifetrap therapy, childhood subjugation, dependent entitlement, high chemistry, subjugate yourself, make flashcards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Ellen, New York, Moderately Difficult, Tell Dennis, Very Easy, Basic Safety, Mildly Difficult, Alcoholics Anonymous, Lifetrap Questionnaire New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Are you repeatedly drawn into relationships with people who are cold to you? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unrelenting standards, emotional deprivation, social exclusion, subjugation lifetrap, other lifetraps, lifetrap therapy, childhood subjugation, dependent entitlement, high chemistry, subjugate yourself, make flashcards Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mary Ellen, New York, Moderately Difficult, Tell Dennis, Very Easy, Basic Safety, Mildly Difficult, Alcoholics Anonymous, Lifetrap Questionnaire New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 8
books:
See all 8 books this book cites
57
books
cite this book:
See all 57 books citing this book
- Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders (Meridian) by Aaron T. Beck in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix in Back Matter
- Psychotherapy and Counseling by William S. Sahakian in Back Matter
- Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Schema-Focused Approach (Practitioner's Resource Series)(3rd Edition) by Jeffrey E. Young in Back Matter
- The Courage to Heal - Third Edition - Revised and Expanded: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass on page 100
See all 8 books this book cites
- Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide by Jeffrey E. Young PhD on 6 pages
- Overcoming the Emotional Challenges of Lymphedema by Elizabeth McMahon on page 165, page 172, and page 262
- After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful by Janis Abrahms Spring in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Finding the Center Within: The Healing Way of Mindfulness Meditation by Beverly Bien on page 164, page 182, and Back Matter
- Adult Client Education Handout Planner (PracticePlanners) by Laurie C. Grand on page 99, page 100, and Back Matter
See all 57 books citing this book
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
![[Start the discussion]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/x-locale/communities/discussion_boards/start-new-discussion-sec._V192250339_.gif){kind=small}
So You'd Like to...
|
|
