i am wondering if there is anyone here who has experience with schema therapy. i have done lots of reading and i have started with a schema therapist.

[sunrise]

gerber, what is schema therapy?

I think someone was doing schema therapy or that their therapist was influenced by schema therapy at the very least.

Is it... a particular kind of cognitive therapy???

http://www.guilford.com/cgi-bin/cart...g.htm&cart_id=

ah... it seems to be a bit more than that.

[winterbaby]

I've done it for 12 sessions and loved it. The important thing is the T is trained in it. The Jeffrey Young insitute in NY can recommend someone who is trained in it, in your area.
I found the flash card thing a little annoying and ended up not doing them but everything else was great.

sunrise, it's a specialized type of therapy which developed from CBT, sometimes also called CBT-S. It was originally developed for treatment of personality disorders but is now used to treat other issues. It involves more detailed early history and spends more time looking at childhood and early adult trauma than traditional CBT. It uses "limited reparenting"... that part seems to be controversial for some reason. It deals with the core beliefs and schemas or conceptualizations of how the world is that we all develop. For patients experiencing life issues which are pattern based work well with schema. It very much involves digging in and finding out what the core beliefs are which continue to keep the person trapped within their pattern.

Make sense?

as far as I know my T has experience with it. I am interested to hear more about the details sans flashcards maybe?

From what I have read it's supposed to be helpful for people who have not been suited to CBT, can't or won't do homework, etc. Of all things, one article called them "treatment failures!" Ick.