Schema Therapy in Practice

Arnoud Arntz is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Experimental Psychopathology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands. He is Scientific Director of the University’s Research Center of Experimental Psychopathology. He studies psychological theories and therapies for anxiety and personality disorders, and is the principal investigator for a series of multicenter trials investigating the effectiveness of schema therapy for various personality disorders. He also practices CBT and schema therapy.Gitta Jacob is a Clinical Psychologist, Cognitive and Schema Therapist in the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Germany. She is a founding board member of the International Society for Schema Therapy, and a past Chair of the Working Group on Borderline Personality Disorders at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Freiburg.

• About the Authors vii Acknowledgments ixIntroduction 1PART I CASE CONCEPTUALIZATION 31 Basics 52 The Mode Concept 413 Communicating the Mode Concept to the Patient 91PART II TREATMENT 1014 Treatment Overview 1035 Overcoming Coping Modes 1176 Treating Vulnerable Child Modes 1417 Treating Angry and Impulsive Child Modes 1938 Treating Dysfunctional Parent Modes 2179 Strengthening the Healthy Adult Mode 245References 255Index 259

"The writing style is concise and grounded in the clinical setting, the case examples are clear and informative and the FAQs at the end of each chapter are well conceived. ...Arntz and Jacob manage to provide a captivating insight into what we might observe if looking in on a schema therapy session, and I think go some way toward convincing us that these are some genuinely novel ideas and methods that may deserve a place in our own consulting rooms."  (The Psychiatrist, 1 June 2013)