Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns: A Schema Therapy Self-Help and Support Book
Also known as Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns, Andere Wege gehen
A schema therapy self-help book on modes, by Jacob, van Genderen and Seebauer
At a glance
What it argues
Understand before changing
Key ideas
Modes, Real needs, Alone or with a therapist …
See all 4Examples from the book
Carol, 'Exclusion'
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Schema Therapy in Practice, Reinventing Your Life
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Gitta Jacob, Hannie van Genderen and 3 others
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- Some patterns of feeling and behaving keep causing the same problems: schema therapy calls them modes.
- A mode is a state of mind connected to bad experiences in childhood or youth.
- The first part helps readers find their modes, where they came from and what needs lie under them.
- The second part gives step-by-step methods to change them, alone or alongside therapy.
Why it matters
- For clients in schema therapy and self-help readers who want to understand their own modes.
- The publisher calls it the first book on the mode approach for general readers.
Key facts
- Authors
- Gitta Jacob, Hannie van Genderen and Laura Seebauer1
- Published
- March 2015 (English); German original 2011, Beltz2
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell1
- Pages
- 2081
- ISBN
- 97811188777151
- Audience
- Schema therapy patients and self-help readers1
What it argues
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Understand before changing2
First recognize which patterns bother you now, how they developed and why they persist.
Key ideas
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Modes2
A mode is a persistent pattern of behaving and feeling that always causes the same type of problems.
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Real needs2
Readers discover their real needs and how to meet them better.
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Alone or with a therapist2
Usable as a self-help guide or as support during schema therapy; seek a therapist if it gets too difficult.
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Ready-made materials1
20 self-help mode materials, also online, and original illustrations of the modes.
Examples from the book
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Carol, 'Exclusion'2
A 34-year-old bank assistant feels rejected when colleagues share an insider joke; school moves and mobbing at 12 lie behind it.
Read next
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Jacob and Arntz's version of the same model for therapists.
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The older self-help book, built on single schemas ('lifetraps').
Connections
Written by
- Gitta Jacob
- Hannie van Genderen
- Laura Seebauer
Links
Sources
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