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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide

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As a psychologist who has utilized Schema Therapy for several years I found that this work far surpassed my expectations.

Schema Therapy, which originally evolved from cognitive therapy, integrates theory and technques from various fields, including behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, gestalt therapy and object relations. This theoretical synthesis is presented in a remarkably straightforward manner that even the beginning therapist will find easy to follow and utilize.

The book is highly readable and loaded with specific clinical interventions. The last two chapters, on treating borderlines and narcissists, are worth the price of the book alone.

I'd recommend this book to any therapist from any orientation. Cognitive and behavior therapists will find the focus on early childhood experience and deeper emotions to be be a useful extension of knowledge presented in a logical down to earth manner. Therapists from more traditional backgrounds will benefit from this exposure to an effective treatment which has systematic recommendations for treating long term problems.

As a psychodynamically trained therapist, I have sensed for many years that a 'pure' approach to therapy has severe limitations. This led me to get further training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and to use this with my clients - to some good effect. However, I felt uncomfortable using this 'either, or' approach to therapy (either psychodynamic OR CBT) and have been trying for a long time to work out a way of integrating these two approaches in my practice.

So reading Jeffrey Young's book is like reading something that I should have written myself! I keep thinking, 'Oh yes, that's just what I find too!', and 'Hey, that's MY idea!'. In other words, I find this an eminently practical and useful outline of a model of therapy that more or less perfectly describes my own approach to working with clients. What is useful to me in particular are the 18 maladaptive schemas, and the corresponding system of coping with them. THe questionnaires (available from www.schematherapy.com) which can help clients to identify their own particular combination of problem schemas and coping styles forms an excellent basis for rich, rewarding, collaborative therapy.

I am full of admiration for the three authors who produced this volume. I look forward to attending some of the workshops when they come my way in the UK. A thouroughly recommended read.

This book is fantastic! It really explains why some people end up with personality disorders and how to go about having a person see their dysfunctional patterns. The book is well structured with good outlines of the various schemata. However, after about page 70, it gets a bit repetitive. The case illustrations are helpful, though I couldn't help noticing how neatly well packaged they were. Schema therapy definitely provides an excellent framework within which to conceptualize personality disorders. Apparently it is more helpful to borderline personality disorder than psychodynamic therapy. So,in summary, while I really appreciated how personality disorders were conceptualized, I found the book a bit repetitive... For a more 'academic' approach, you might want to try the Handbook of Personality Disorders.

This highly professional yet clearly articulated book covers the history, concepts, and techniques of Schema Therapy. While this therapeutic approach originated in cognitive therapy, it has evolved into a systematic ecclecticism that includes cognitive, behavioral, experiential, and other useful techniques for identifying and healing schemas, modes, coping patterns, etc. Highly recommended for the professional with an interest in helping clients alter personality disorders and other disturbances that are resistant to other therapeutic approaches. Fred P. Gallo, PhD, author of "Energy Psychology" and co-author of "The Neurophysics of Human Behavior"

The book has outlined the help you need to deal with these schemas. Has examples of schema cards. Very good book. Its a add on to ReInventing you life. Could help a lot in conjunction with counselling. Fills you in on all the schemas and ways that some people fought the schema along with help from psychologists. I feel these schemas need professional help to overcome, but this book prepares you for what you are up against and informs you of how a psychologist would go about helping you.

I bought this after seeing Jeff Young's introductory workshop on Schematherapy (I'm a psychologist). The book added depth to what I learned in his excellent workshop and enabled me to begin implementing Young's techniques. This approach has empirical evidence demonstrating its effectiveness with people who have Borderline Personality Disorder. I strongly recommend the book (and Young's workshop) to mental health professionals who are working with this population.

This book is a must for Psychiatrist ,Psychologists and Family Practitioners doing therapy- It synthesizes Brain action thru Schemas or scripts of childhood and how they project in your adult life. Well written with many practical points- Excellent book= Hector A. Feliciano MD- Proffesor of Family Medicine University of P.R. Medical School

I'm a layperson, not a therapist, but after reading Young's Schema Therapy book written for the layperson, Reinventing Your Life, I was impressed enough with the subject to dwell deeper into the subject, so I bought this book, which was a more in-depth and challenging read.

If you're the type of person who needs riveting prose in order to read nonfiction, this book may not be for you. It isn't extremely dry, clinical, academic or filled with technical jargon, but it isn't as easy breezy a read as, say, Malcolm Gladwell either. It is written in a very straightforward and clear way, and is very thorough. Young covers a lot of ground, and if you make your way through the whole book, even some of the slower parts, I think the end result is a very illuminating and informative experience.

This book definitely shed a lot more light on schemas to me than Reinventing Your Life did. Reinventing Your Life was still a good book, but if I could only recommend one, I'd definitely go with this one. I can see why Young recommends his clients to read Reinventing Your Life because it really is easier to digest and a quicker read, but the specificity in this book made me really understand on a much deeper level the psychodynamics behind different schemas and how they react to each other. The chapters on the differences and similarities between Cognitive Behavior Therapy and Schema Therapy, on schema modes and on special problems arising from borderline and narcissistic patients also were invaluable.

does anyone know if there is some foundation for why there would be 18 schemas....
oh the book is very good in many ways:)

my own guess on why 18
has to do with the 9 enneagrams ..each with 2 wings
and perhaps the 9 intelligences of gardner too