Product Description

Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #20896 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 436 pages

Review

"Useful verbatim examples are given for treatment of several types of patients... A very good book, and I highly recommend it to both novice and veteran therapists." - Psychiatric Times

"A rich and highly informative text that outlines the principles of the schema model, schema assessment and evaluation, and all the major components of schema therapy... The richness of the clinical material is enough to give practitioners a basic understanding of how to apply schema therapy... An insightful, innovative, and thorough treatment approach to personality pathology." - Journal of Psychosomatic Research

"This is a superb volume, reflecting many years of astute clinical and theoretical work by very able clinicians... It should appeal to psychotherapy integrationists from many traditions." - Psychotherapy Research

"This volume demonstrates in a skillful, highly readable fashion how the standard cognitive therapy approaches to Axis 1 disorders can be expanded and modified to treat personality disorders... Highly recommended for all therapists engaged in treating patients with these very difficult personality problems." - Aaron T. Beck, University of Pennsylvania, USA

From the Back Cover

Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies. This book - written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners - is the first major text for clinicians wishing to learn and use this popular approach. Described are innovative ways to rapidly conceptualize challenging cases, explore the client's childhood history, identify and modify self-defeating patterns, use imagery and other experiential techniques in treatment, and maximize the power of the therapeutic relationship. Including detailed protocols for treating borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, the book is illustrated with numerous clinical examples.

About the Author

Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University, USA; Janet S. Klosko, PhD, private practice, Great Neck, NY, USA; and Marjorie E. Weishaar, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown University, USA

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book of integration
There are some books in the field of cognitive psychotherapy, which take the reader to a realistic and fascinating trip in the realm of psychotherapy. This is one of them. It is full of practical wisdom, its theoretical background is understandable and the process of therapy is beautiful.
The book keeps the reader on the seat, the language and syntax is working well. I liked very much the description of imagery technics and therapeutical relationship with the therapists own schemas, which very covered well in the book. I could find me and my narcissistic patient well on the pages dealing psychotherapy of narcissist personality disorder.
The book integrates beckian, schematherapy and experiential techniques, deals attachement of bowlby, reciprocality of cogn.analalytic therapy and even some counter transference issues.
Lovely book.

The model I have been looking for.
Schema Therapy has helped me to integrate the things I have been doing as a therapist. It combines the best of the structure that CBT provides with a pragmatic, depth-oriented approach that gets at the things that CBT cannot. Best of all, the therapist gets to bring him or herself into the therapeutic encounter (think the genuineness that is often left out of Person-Centred Therapy). Really good stuff. The book is similar to reading Yalom's text on group therapy that you will get more out if it after repeated readings. Highly recommended!