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Emotional inhibition and avoidance are frequent problems in psychotherapy and often block the therapeutic process. Most often patients learnt these behavioral patterns early in childhood as coping strategies to protect themselves from painful emotions such as fear, sadness or shame. Schema therapy (ST) was specifically designed for patients with such rigid and hard to break through behavioral patterns and has shown to be a successful treatment for patients with cluster-C-personality disorders, which extensively display inhibited and fearful behavior. ST provides a set of techniques to address emotional inhibition and avoidance. The schema mode model helps patients to understand the origin and persistence of their problems and therapists can directly apply specific techniques for each mode. The therapist creates a caring, warm, parent-like relationship ('limited reparenting') and by this helps the patient to feel safer with emotions and with other people. Simultaneously, the therapist empathically confronts the patient with the problematic consequences of his behavior and pushes for change. Moreover, experiential techniques are frequently applied to help the patient experience and r

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Author

Eva Fassbinder; Arnoud Arntz

Published

2018

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)