i've never felt comfortable with the cbt side of the schema therapy approach my T and i have been working on. The more towards cbt he goes, the more broken our connection becomes... even when he tries to be subtle and i don't know that's what he's doing...

one thing that has always bothered me about cbt-type approaches is the lack of evaluation process about the thoughts themselves, or feelings for that matter. Maybe you feeling like a dork for honking at the next car in traffic was because your conscience realized you were being a dork.. whereas evaluating the "bad" feelings as being unproductive and resulting from erroneous thought processes lets you act like a dork with rampant abandon!

long before i entered therapy, and knew CBT by term only, i resisted going into therapy myself because it seemed like the "benefit" most people i knew were getting was a means of absolving themselves and then liberally applying that to their behaviour without much scrutiny... perhaps the failure there was in not teaching people to evaluate. It would make sense to most people that feeling sad might have its proper place... but so does guilt and anxiety, they just need more control, like weeds. It makes perfect, normal sense to feel anxious about a tax audit for example