Schema Therapy
by Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko, Marjorie E. Weishaar · first published 2006
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Practitioner-oriented guide to schema therapy from its founder, valued by clinicians and by readers who want to understand lifetraps and maladaptive schemas; also cited as a reference for personality patterns.
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…Getting Unstuck in ACT - A Clinician's Guide to Overcoming Common Obstacles in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy [http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Unstuck-ACT-Clinicians-Overcom...] Both by Jeffrey E. Young: Schema Therapy - A Practitioner's Guide, and Reinventing Your Life [http://www.amazon.com/Schema-Therapy-A-Practitioners-Guide/d...] Steven C. Hayes, - Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life [http://www.amazon.com/Get-Your-Mind-Into-Life/dp/1572244259]…
on “Both geniuses and madmen pay attention to what others ignore” ↗Nobody mentioned Schema Therapy, so I will. Schema Therapy is such a beautiful thing and Jeffrey Young seems such a great human being and therapist (unlike the narcissistic freudian type of self important psychotherapist). I only…
on “Parents’ trauma leaves biological traces in children” ↗What do you base this statement on? Are you confusing BPD (borderline personality disorder) with bipolar disorder? BPD and NPD, based on several psychology books I've read, including the very good book Schema Therapy, are very unlikely to seek treatment.
on “What It’s Like to Be a Diagnosed Narcissist” ↗…https://www.behaviorology.org/oldsite/pdf/AttachmentTheoryBe..., https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1d36/ac75d7081fcd86d467f6d2... (The stuff by Cindy Hazan and Philip Shaver are very relevant for adults) - Schema Therapy: https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf Look up Psychology in Seattle on Patreon and download the deep dives for Attachment Theory and Schema Therapy. After that it's easier to grok the research…
on “Ask HN: What things do you wish you discovered earlier?” ↗…were affected by narcissistic people. -All reddit groups about narcissism. -Writings of Vaknin and other famous narcissists. Things that did help: -Reinventing Your Life by Young (general audience). -Schema Therapy by Young (professional audience). -Borderline, Narcissistic, and Schizoid Adaptations by Greenberg (professional audience). -Learning how to be aware when I'm splitting others or myself into black and…
on “Ask HN: How did you fix your narcissism?” ↗…reading the abstract description): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_maladaptive_schemas -- if you match any, this is a great place to start, regardless of the therapy affiliation. I really like Schema Therapy, though I've only seen one therapist qualified in it, and while she started great -- gave me a long questionnaire that pointed out my maladaptive schemas I already knew were present(she made me feel "wow,…
on “How you 'attach' to people may explain a lot about your inner life” ↗Something that is perhaps a little more personal, but going by the "true impact" metric it fits: Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns - a Schema Therapy Self-help and Support Book Short and effective (although it's no substitute for a proper therapist). Well, provided that you can take a step back to get over yourself and be brutally honest about your…
on “Ask HN: Great books you read in 2018?” ↗There can be multiple reasons for your behavior. What I think could help you the most is reading about schema therapy[1]. It's a therapeutic method which says we all carry certain lifetraps which we acquired during childhood. Some lifetraps: - abandoment: you are afraid of being abandoned by a loved one - worthlessness:…
on “Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?” ↗…of psychoanalysis. I read quite a few books, from Transactional Analysis, to DBT therapist manuals, CBT manuals, and the one I loved the most and which actually helped me the most cure my BPD -- the Schema Therapy manual. CBT seems very well suited/tooled for point therapies, very through, asks you to do homeworks, note down thoughts, I can absolutely see how it works very well for a broad spectrum of point issues.…
on “ERP Therapy Sucks” ↗…_not_ thinking about (getting the release done, having a difficult workshop to run). PPS. I'm not a psychologist, but I read some interesting perspectives on the problem of avoidance when researching Schema Therapy. Surely, there are better materials than that, but I found it personally interesting and you might too.
on “The “just worrying” labelling technique [pdf]” ↗…have ADHD, at least that's what the psychiatrist that diagnosed me with BPD told me when she handed me questionaires for ADHD. I've researched a lot about BPD therapies and the most promising one -- Schema Therapy -- models heavily BPD as being rooted in abandonment issues in childhood -- and everything I've read rang like hitting a nail on it's head, at least in my case.
on “Children for Sale, 1948” ↗…complicated social behaviors we act out on into concepts and frameworks. You can choose how you interpret and use it. If you don't believe me, google: Dialectical behavior therapy, attachment theory, schema therapy with "filetype: pdf" in the query and load em into PDF reader. Kindle has good books. Schema Therapy: https://www.guilford.com/excerpts/young.pdf Attachment theory: https://www.behaviorology.org/oldsite/pdf/AttachmentTheoryBe...…
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