Breaking Negative Relationship Patterns

Bruce Stevens is Wicking Professor of Ageing and Practical Theology at Charles Sturt University. He was previously Associate Professor in Clinical Psychology at the University of Canberra, Australia, and Founder of Canberra Clinical and Forensic Psychology. He was Chair of the Canberra section of the Clinical College of the Australian Psychological Society, and gives APS-sponsored workshops on couple therapy throughout Australia.Eckhard Roediger is a neurologist, psychiatrist and psychotherapist based in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a former chief physician of the Salus Klinik Hospital, and is currently Director of the Frankfurt Schema Therapy Institute and President of the ISST. He is author of several German language books on schema therapy.Bruce Stevens and Eckhard Roediger are the co-authors (with Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco) of Schema Therapy with Couples: A Practitioner's Guide to Healing Relationships (Wiley, 2015).

• About the Authors viiiIntroduction 11 Schema Therapy: Toward a Science of Relationships 82 Past Tense, Present Tense: Understanding Family Patterns 293 Attraction, Romance, and Schema Chemistry 404 Back to the Future 535 Modes: In the Present Tense 636 Mode Awareness 777 Managing the Modes 928 Past Tense: Managing the Parent Modes 999 The “Great Escape”: Understanding the Coping Modes 11210 Meeting the Needs of Your “Inner Child” 13611 Mode Change 15112 Putting “Healthy” Back in Your Adult 17113 A Clear Path: Dealing with Conflicts, Communication, and Decision Making 19114 Looking at Sex Through the Eyes of the Modes 21115 Affairs 22016 Emotional Learning 242Epilogue 256Index 258

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