Reinventing Your Life: The breakthrough program to end negative behaviour and feel great again

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 commonlifetraps’ - 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 acase’ against your lifetrap) and behavioural (identifying specific behaviours to be changed).‘-Library Journal

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, is Co-director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island, in Great Neck, New York, and senior psychologist at the Schema Therapy Institute and at Woodstock Women’s Health in Woodstock, New York.

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