Posted by canadagirl on April 14, 2007, at 17:57:55
In reply to criticisms schema therapy, posted by gazo on April 14, 2007, at 13:28:52
Hi Gazo, hope you are "enjoying" your schema therapy. Well as far as criticisms go, I'm like you, wanted to know everything about it. The best resource I found was "Schema Therapy" a practitioner's guide. I had schema over a year ago and it was quite short term, only a few sessions for a number of reasons, and some online but I found it was very helpful. One of the ideas behind it is the therapist uses "empathetic confrontation" to help change our thinking. The only criticism I can see is that if someone is a particularly fragile person, it may not be for them (being "emphathetically" confronted!). My therapist got quite direct at times.
I did have a few gestalt sessions too another time and it was pretty similar to some of the techniques. The problem is, for me anyway, I don't like people using techniques on me LOL.
So I'm not a very good client. However, the schema, yes, it was great, I hope you get a lot out of it. The "limited reparenting" -- don't get stuck on those words, it just means the therapist is very engaged and human and caring with the client rather than a blank wall.
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