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Originally Posted by therapyworked4me
What do you mean specifically, by reaparenting therapy?
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Thank you for the question, I realized I'm not completely sure. But just to make the distinction, I did not say "reparenting therapy", I said "reparenting in therapy", as in being part of therapy not the name of a particular therapy.
So I did a little search and I think a good way to explain maybe use one kind of therapy that makes some uses of reparenting, such as schema therapy, and here's an article on this site, from which I quoted the relevant part:
New Therapy Shows Promise for Personality Disorders | Psych Central News
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How Schema Therapy Works
What sets schema therapy apart from all the other major treatments for personality disorders, including treatments like Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, is its use of limited reparenting. This involves the therapist doing more to directly meet the early core emotional needs of the patient.
Limited reparenting is organized around modes, or parts of the self.
The therapist works to get past modes like the Detached Protector and Punitive Parent Mode to reach the Vulnerable Child Mode.
Direct access to the Vulnerable Child is the key to the therapist being able to meet these needs and is the cornerstone of treatment.
All the major alternatives involve the therapist talking to the adult patient about their vulnerabilities and thus are more focused on adult to adult interactions.
Schema therapy focuses on direct contact between the therapist and this vulnerable or child part of the self.
This sets a very different tone to the treatment; one that patients respond readily to and that is believed to be the reason for the unusually low dropout rate.
The adult side of the patient is gradually brought in as it becomes healthy enough to take over for the therapist...
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