Schema Therapy for Memory Reconsolidation and Transformational Change by Cousineau, Pierre; Côté, Sophie;

Short description:

Schema Therapy for Memory Reconsolidation and Transformational Change offers psychotherapists a model for clearly and coherently conceptualizing human complexity in a transparent, accessible form.

Long description:

Schema Therapy for Memory Reconsolidation and Transformational Change offers psychotherapists a model for clearly and coherently conceptualizing human complexity in a transparent, accessible form.

The book explores the pivotal concept of schemas, which are the emotional memories built up through our life experiences that largely determine our view of the world and the way we react and adapt to it. Schema therapy focuses on certain early schemas that have become maladaptive. It has always done so with openness, integrating techniques from a variety of psychotherapeutic orientations.

The book presents schemas in their predictive function and looks at the possibility of updating these predictions based on advances in neuroscience that clarify the conditions necessary for therapeutic reconsolidation of memory.

“This valuable and lucidly written book is a beautiful integration, theoretically and practically, that shows how schema therapy can be enriched by concepts and practices from coherence therapy to identify, strategically target, and permanently update specific beliefs and predictions encoded in the range of early maladaptive schema systems. It is a wonderful resource for promoting schema healing.”

David Edwards, emeritus professor at Rhodes University in South Africa, clinical psychologist (South Africa and UK), ISST-certified trainer, and former ISST president

“The work of Cousineau and Côté has been an inspiration for me, and I believe that schema therapy and its development gain a lot by this book. I therefore recommend it with great pleasure!”

Remco van der Wijngaart, chair of the Dutch Society of Schema Therapy (VSt) and director/owner of the Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy

“This masterful book by Cousineau and Côté is a tremendous service not only to schema therapy and its worldwide practitioners, but also to the psychotherapy field as a whole, because it shows how to retool and maximize the effectiveness of a well-established therapy system with our 21st-century knowledge of memory reconsolidation as the brain’s core process of liberating, transformational change.”

Bruce Ecker, LMFT, co-founder of coherence therapy, co-director of the Coherence Psychology Institute, and co-author of Unlocking the Emotional Brain

“Cousineau and Côté present a thoughtful roadmap for aligning the strengths of schema therapy with a precise understanding of what the brain needs to truly unlearn entrenched predictive models. This book is a generous and valuable contribution to the global community of therapists.”

Tori Olds, PhD, co-founder of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, one of the largest therapy and training centers in Texas, USA

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Schema Therapy and Our Adaptive Learning Systems  1. Schemas Illuminated by Neuroscience  2. Modes  3. Early Maladaptive Schemas as Predictive Memories  Part 2: Facilitating Transformational Change in Schema Therapy  4. Schema Interventions: To Manage or To Transform  5. Schemas and the Therapeutic Reconsolidation Process: Conditions for Schemas Transformation  6. Transforming Schemas