Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, serves on the faculty of the Department of
Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is director of the Cognitive
Therapy Center of New York as well as the Schema Therapy Institute.
Dr. Young founded schema therapy, and is a founding fellow of the
Academy of Cognitive Therapy. He has published extensively,
including two major books, Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide,
for mental health professionals, and Reinventing Your Life, a
bestselling self-help book. Dr. Young was awarded the prestigious
NEEI Mental Health Educator of the Year award in 2003.
Janet S. Klosko, PhD, Co-director of the Cognitive Therapy Center
of Long Island, in Great Neck, New York, is senior psychologist at
the Schema Therapy Institute and at Woodstock Women’s Health in
Woodstock, New York.
‘Several of the most painful petards upon which people become
hoisted during an unhappy childhood are neatly dispatched here by
two cognitive therapists, who attack 11 common ‘lifetraps’ —
destructive patterns that underlie a variety of emotional problems.
Young and Klosko ably demonstrate how to deal with issues of
abandonment, dependence, trust, social rejection, emotional
deprivation, failure and vulnerability. They provide meaningful
case histories, perceptive descriptions, diagnostic tests and a
variety of nugget-sized, easily understood lists detailing the
causes, danger signs and effects of negative impulses and actions,
as well as ways to short-circuit them.’
*Publishers Weekly*
‘Using illustrations from case studies, the authors describe each
lifetrap, discuss its origins in childhood experience, and provide
a questionnaire for self-assessment. They then offer a program for
change using techniques ranging from experiential (getting in touch
with your inner child) to cognitive (writing a ‘case’ against your
lifetrap) and behavioural (identifying specific behaviours to be
changed).’
*Library Journal*
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