Schema Therapy. Distinctive Features

Schema therapy combines well-established techniques of cognitive-behavioral therapy with elements of interpersonal, experiential, and psychodynamic therapies. It is based on the premise that many negative cognitive states are rooted in a person's past experiences and offers models to counteract negative thoughts and behaviors and modify them. The authors of this book, Eshkol Rafaeli, David F. Bernstein, and Jeffrey Young - pioneers of the schema therapy method - outline 30 distinctive features of schema therapy and demonstrate the place of this method within the broader spectrum of CBT. This book is a useful source of information for clinical psychologists, psychotherapists, psychopathologists, and psychiatrists.