Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book

The authors have distilled their extensive clinical experienceas therapists, supervisors, trainers and researchers in SchemaTherapy into a wonderfully clear and enlightening self-help guide.Their ability to explain and address complex issues in such astraightforward and compassionate manner means that this book willbe invaluable for people struggling with 'negative thinkingpatterns', and a great inspiration for therapists looking toexplain the concepts and ideas of schema therapy to others.Harnessing the use of mental imagery is a useful addition too tomany standard texts. Super case examples and vivid imagesillustrate the concepts throughout.--Emily Holmes, MRCCognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge UK and Departmentfor Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden This book is an amazingly successful explanation of the essenceof Schema Therapy. It is perfect for anyone interested inunderstanding what drives our emotional, thinking and behavioralpatterns, and how those patterns can be changed. It is already abestseller in the Netherlands and Germany and a great help to itsreaders, so it is fantastic that it is now available inEnglish.--Arnoud Arntz, PhD, Professor of ClinicalPsychology, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands