Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder

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This volume is the authoritative presentation of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Linehan's comprehensive, integrated approach to treating individuals with borderline personality disorder. DBT--which has since been adapted for other difficult-to-treat disorders involving emotion dysregulation--combines cognitive and behavioral strategies with elements of psychodynamic, strategic, and other modalities. Delineated are specific strategies for contingency management, exposure, cognitive modification, and skills training. In-depth descriptions of skills training procedures are provided in the companion manual. Core emotion regulation skills are also taught directly to clients in Linehan's skills training videos.

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Working with patients with borderline personality disorder.......2007-05-06

Linehan has written an easy-to-read, well organized book on working with BPD; her methods are empirically based. In one review a criticism was expressed re: her use of the female pronoun throughout the book. This didn't distract me from reading and learning; it seemed a commonsense choice on Linehan's part because, as she points out, the majority of individuals with BPD are women. The accompanying workbook is worth purchasing, also.

DBT Book.......2007-03-09

I think that this book is helpful to learn about DBT groups and how to facilitate them. We are having a study group at the agency that I work as and right now we are on Chapter 3.

THE Book.......2007-01-12

As a Borderline reading a book written for the clinician, it opened my eyes as to how others see me. It has helped me to see the areas in my mind that CAN be changed and has helped me to begin making those changes.
It is written by a 'non-writer' and is very difficult to read at times without a psych. manual ;)!! lots of $1000.00 words that are not for the layman, but if you want to know more about 'The Borderline', it will help you to learn who and what they are, and how and why they they think the way they do. For those angels among us,it teaches the greatest program on how to help us to change.

A Godsend.......2006-12-11

I've just started reading the book and have skimmed the workbook. She is, as one reviewer stated, very compassionate. I myself am a borderline individual, recently discovering it as of last week from a caring boyfriend. I went to the library and checked this book out. Never have I been blown away by how this book describes my feelings and pains so accurately. I never, for all these years, understood what was wrong with me, assuming it was everyone else. Ms. Linehan has definately helped my outlook on life. I'm very grateful for this book.

better outcomes...less burnout!.......2006-07-22

As a relatively new therapist in a community mental health setting I noticed I kept getting clients that were diagnosed with BPD. No one else seemed to want them and as the new therapist I got "stuck" with them. After many months of frustration and questioning whether or not I made the right career choice, I stumbled across DBT.

My clients are doing much better and I feel much better after reading Linehan's works and attending behavioraltech.com's conferences for training. Case Managers, Psychiatrists, and Therapists are now working together as a team and splitting is not much of an issue anymore.

The techniques are wonderful and I feel so inspired; however, the text is a little dry and I had to give myself little rewards after each chapter to get through this book.

Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Second Edition

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Cognitive Therapy of Personality Disorders, Second Edition
Aaron T. Beck , Arthur Freeman , and Denise D. Davis
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This important work presents a cognitive framework for understanding and treating personality disorders. In one volume, Aaron T. Beck and his distinguished coauthors offer both a comprehensive overview of scientific knowledge and a detailed guide to individualized treatment. Part I lays out the conceptual, empirical, and clinical foundations of effective work with this highly challenging population, and Part II describes the process of cognitive-behavioral therapy for each of the specific disorders. Chapters demonstrate the nuts and bolts of differential diagnosis, case conceptualization, and intervention, with particular attention to therapeutic impasses and how to overcome them.

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From a patients view.......2007-09-14

As someone who is avoidant co morbid with OCPD spent perhaps 40 years depressed more than not before reaching out for any professional help I would like to say especially in the chapter on avoidants the book is pretty much dead on. The chapter on avoidants is the one I can most closely relate to but I see myself in others as well my OCDP us most apparent in hoarding issues a spot my therapist and I are having a hard time pushing me through I've been working with a therapist for about a year and half now making progress even if it's slow. My therapist knows I am a person who likes to try and understand my disorders and reads as much material as I can. We have both learned a lot together she being my motivator and supporter. She has been outstanding doing her research to help develop plans of actions that have helped knock down some long standing self built walls. She likes to kid me that I could teach a graduate class in personality disorders with all the reading I have done.

To sum this up as a someone who has to deal with these issues as part of my daily life the book is right on with much of the way my thoughts/reactions are if I don't work actively to keep ahead of them to continue on my road to a happier life. And yes even as someone who came to therapy at a high functioning level in many aspects of my life I know at times I can be a frustrating client. But for me the knowledge that both my therapist and I are feeing increasing levels of frustration has been something I have been able to use to finally find the courage to knock down some long standing walls. So a special than you to those of you who choose to try and help those of us who present some special difficulties.

came as ordered.......2007-01-11

The book came in a timely manner and arrived in new condition exactly as I ordered it. Very pleased.

Bedrock Concepts for the Millennial Therapist.......2006-10-18

Beck's and Freeman's marriage of value and belief systems to personality theory was nothing less than a watershed back in 1990. Kernberg, Millon, Hare, Linehan, Shapiro and other personality theorists of the period were already moving in the direction of what became Millon's "personality-guided synergistic therapy." But this book gave substance to what has become the dominant set of front-line therapeutic tools in use at this time.

The major reason is four-fold: managed care imperatives drive everything now, managed care respects medical model empirical research, cognitive methods make empirical research relatively easy... and Beck and Freeman laid it on thick.

Millon asserted a decade later that "Persons are inherently created from birth as natural entities rather than experence-derived gestalts constructed through cognitive attribution." But Beck, Freeman and the rest of the crew back of CToPD demonstrated that the cognitive attributions are -precisely- what underly the chains of choice-making abstractions that contribute so much to anxiety, panic, depression and rage... and do so through commmonly observed collections of ego defenses we call "personality disorders."

In Personality Guided Therapy (Wiley, 1999), Millon himself came to insist that grasping these collections of stress-contaminated and thereby corrupted ego defenses leads neatly to understanding the precise nature of the "thinking" (if not the biological issues) that contributes to a patient's anxiety, panic, depression or rage.

Understand the nature of the cause as the construction of dysfunctional personality: Gain insight as to how to deal with -affective- results... on a person-by-person basis. Millon lead the charge against the one-size-fits-all view of cognitive, existential, psychodynamic methods for the observed, affective complaint.

I agree that the cognitive approach is not the one and only be-all and end-all of therapeutic solution. But, had Beck and Freeman not laid down the cognitive schema here (well before Young came along to further advance the case), I'm not sure Millon would have found his voice quite as he did in his own monumental tome insisting upon sophisticated integration of the biopsychosocial view.

One further point: The -first- edition of CToPD was written in the era of the DSM III-R and includes truly valuable discussion of "passive-agressive personality disorder" before it was axed from the Axis II list in the DSM IV (one of the many reasons I consult the ICD so often). For those trained since the mid-'90s, this is of considerable significance. PAPD is empirically widespread and definable much as Beck and Freeman laid it out and sought to deal with it, regardless of what the APA thought in '92 and '93.

Fantastic.......2006-06-16

This is a great book. For example, the chapters on obsessive compulsive and passive agressive personality give some great direction for therapy. Knowing that an obsessive person fears making mistakes, that narcissism is part of obsessionality and that a passive agressive person fears loss of autonomy can really guide treatment well.

On the other hand, the treatment of narcissistic personality disorder is weak. It just concentrates on how the patient should learn that the world does not revolve around them. It ignores the shame, need for validation and driven quality that narcissistic patients have and is reflected in their cognitions. In other words, the case used to treat NPD is of the oblivious type and in practice it is more common to see the hypervigilant type of narcisit. As CBT becomes more psychodynamic, this issue will be better addressed, I anticipate. (The oblivious narcisists are more antisocial and the vigilant ones are more on the anxiou/dependant end of the spectrum - I forget who's classification this is).

Very practical, directive strategy.......2005-10-10

Beck has done a great job describing a very pragmatic, common sense cognitive-behavioral methodology for the treatment of challenging personalities. The research he has done builds confidence in practitioners interested in and using these methods. Each personality style is well-described, and several strategies are provided for addressing these problematic dispositions. The book is very well-organized and easy to read. Assignments and case examples further add to the utility of this text.

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This is a comprehensive, up-to-date introduction to the origins, development, and practice of cognitive-analytic therapy (CAT).

Written by the founder of the method and an experienced psychiatric practitioner and lecturer, it offers a guide to the potential application and experience of CAT with a wide range of difficult clients and disorders and in a variety of hospital, community care and private practice settings.

Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy includes a wide range of features to aid scholars and trainees:

· Illustrative case histories and numerous case vignettes
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Essential reading for practitioners and graduate trainees in psychotherapy, clinical psychology, psychiatry and nursing.

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Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy is a systematic, up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the origin, development and practice of CAT. Since its initial presentation as a model of individual psychotherapy, CAT has grown to represent a general theory of psychological development and change, reflecting in particular the influence of Vygotsky. Economical in cost and applicable to a wide spectrum of disorders, CAT is now widely used by a range of mental health service providers. The practice of CAT has been extended to different settings and patient groups, most notably in the area of Borderline Personality Disorder. Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy includes a range of features to aid scholars and trainees: illustrative case histories and numerous case vignettes chapter summaries, further reading and a glossary of key terms resources for use in clinical settings

Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV-TR Personality Disorders, Second Edition: Highly Effective Interventions for the Most Common Personality Disorders

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The revised edition, like the original, is organized into two parts. Part I will offer an overview of the field, and has been significantly updated to reflect the most recent advances in CBT and the treatment of personality disorders, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Schema Therapy, Cognitive Coping Therapy, Structured Intervention Strategies, and Cognitive Behavioral Analysis System of Psychotherapy. A new section on developmental psychopathology has also been added. Part II, Specific Treatment Strategies is composed of five chapters that each focus on a specific personality disorder. These chapters address Avoidant, Borderline, Dependent, Narcissistic, Histrionic and Obsessive-Compulsive personality disorders, and follow a consistent structure that follows the treatment process in its various stages: engagement, pattern analysis, pattern change and termination and pattern maintenance, including follow-up and relapse prevention.

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Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Schema-Focused Approach (Practitioner's Resource Series)(3rd Edition)
Jeffrey E. Young
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Reinventing your life.......2007-01-10

A great book to help understand why we behave in selfdefeating ways and how to recognise these habits and apply change

Now I get it.......2003-10-16

I have a personality disorder and I've found it difficult to change. This book explained why and gave me a concrete method to effectuate change. I read the lay version "Reinventing Your Life" but I found this version more useful. After almost 5 years of therapy with a competent therapist, I felt like a cognitive therapy failure. Now I know that cognitive therapy can work, but not the way I expected it to--not the way it works for many people. No "Ten Days to Self Esteem" for me. I have to work harder, at a deeper level, in order to get better. This book gives practical advice on how to achieve the change I want.

Practical and Useful Guidelines.......1999-12-01

I highly recommend this illuminating and comprehensive guide. Young's ability to integrate various theoretical orientations and provide a clinically systematic, straightforward method for working with maladaptive traits is astonishing. This book rocks.

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Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies. This book--written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners--is the first major text for clinicians wishing to learn and use this popular approach. Described are innovative ways to rapidly conceptualize challenging cases, explore the client's childhood history, identify and modify self-defeating patterns, use imagery and other experiential techniques in treatment, and maximize the power of the therapeutic relationship. Including detailed protocols for treating borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, the book is illustrated with numerous clinical examples.

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Excellent analysis of a specilized form of cognitive therapy.......2007-02-16

This book is a must for Psychiatrist ,Psychologists and Family Practitioners doing therapy- It synthesizes Brain action thru Schemas or scripts of childhood and how they project in your adult life. Well written with many practical points- Excellent book= Hector A. Feliciano MD- Proffesor of Family Medicine University of P.R. Medical School

Pretty Good.......2006-08-14

This book is fantastic! It really explains why some people end up with personality disorders and how to go about having a person see their dysfunctional patterns. The book is well structured with good outlines of the various schemata. However, after about page 70, it gets a bit repetitive. The case illustrations are helpful, though I couldn't help noticing how neatly well packaged they were. Schema therapy definitely provides an excellent framework within which to conceptualize personality disorders. Apparently it is more helpful to borderline personality disorder than psychodynamic therapy. So,in summary, while I really appreciated how personality disorders were conceptualized, I found the book a bit repetitive... For a more 'academic' approach, you might want to try the Handbook of Personality Disorders.

The Schema Therapy Bible.......2005-09-10

This highly professional yet clearly articulated book covers the history, concepts, and techniques of Schema Therapy. While this therapeutic approach originated in cognitive therapy, it has evolved into a systematic ecclecticism that includes cognitive, behavioral, experiential, and other useful techniques for identifying and healing schemas, modes, coping patterns, etc. Highly recommended for the professional with an interest in helping clients alter personality disorders and other disturbances that are resistant to other therapeutic approaches. Fred P. Gallo, PhD, author of "Energy Psychology" and co-author of "The Neurophysics of Human Behavior"

Thought provoking development in integrative therapy.......2005-03-14

As a psychodynamically trained therapist, I have sensed for many years that a 'pure' approach to therapy has severe limitations. This led me to get further training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and to use this with my clients - to some good effect. However, I felt uncomfortable using this 'either, or' approach to therapy (either psychodynamic OR CBT) and have been trying for a long time to work out a way of integrating these two approaches in my practice.

So reading Jeffrey Young's book is like reading something that I should have written myself! I keep thinking, 'Oh yes, that's just what I find too!', and 'Hey, that's MY idea!'. In other words, I find this an eminently practical and useful outline of a model of therapy that more or less perfectly describes my own approach to working with clients. What is useful to me in particular are the 18 maladaptive schemas, and the corresponding system of coping with them. THe questionnaires (available from www.schematherapy.com) which can help clients to identify their own particular combination of problem schemas and coping styles forms an excellent basis for rich, rewarding, collaborative therapy.

I am full of admiration for the three authors who produced this volume. I look forward to attending some of the workshops when they come my way in the UK. A thouroughly recommended read.

Excellent presentation of an effective therapy.......2003-07-15

As a psychologist who has utilized Schema Therapy for several years I found that this work far surpassed my expectations.

Schema Therapy, which originally evolved from cognitive therapy, integrates theory and technques from various fields, including behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, gestalt therapy and object relations. This theoretical synthesis is presented in a remarkably straightforward manner that even the beginning therapist will find easy to follow and utilize.

The book is highly readable and loaded with specific clinical interventions. The last two chapters, on treating borderlines and narcissists, are worth the price of the book alone.

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Ever since Freud, we've known that we share our mental space with another mind, one that may prove quite a hindrance. It can be like a bad roommate we can't evict, leaving dirty dishes in the sink and playing the stereo too loud, and all we can do is try to adjust its excesses with a few carefully worded notes. Dr. Fredric Schiffer believes that he has located the culprit and learned how to talk to it, and his clinical success with problems like cocaine addiction, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder suggest that he's on to something. Of Two Minds is his report from the front.

A psychiatrist affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Schiffer has studied split-brain research and devised his own experiments to show that stress and anxiety are often felt more strongly in one hemisphere than the other. No simple "left brain good, right brain bad" dichotomy, it seems that those who have been affected by emotional trauma lateralize the effects, perhaps in an effort to maintain more-or-less-normal functioning. One hemisphere or the other gets stuck in the past, says Schiffer, and acts out through the patient's symptoms. His goal is integration of these two minds into a kind of team by using clever manipulation of sensory stimuli and other tools of cognitive science.

Of Two Minds is unusual in its acceptance of both scientific and emotional validity. Alternating reviews of the data with often heart-wrenching transcripts of therapy sessions, it offers a two-pronged assault on what seems to be a dual-natured problem. While it might not solve your "roommate problem" overnight, it may start you on the road to reconciliation. --Rob Lightner

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Most people experience themselves as two-sided: one side seems mature and stable, the other emotional and impulsive. But have you ever wondered if there really are two minds in each of us? If so, do traumatic as well as ordinary experiences affect the way our minds grow and interact? According to Fredric Schiffer, a leading Harvard psychiatrist and researcher, advances in science prove what many of us have always intuited is true: We are of two minds, each one with a different degree of maturity, and each one associated with the left or the right brain. This brilliant, provocative book illustrates how the interaction of these two minds -- whether they sabotage each other or work in harmony -- actually determines our psychological nature and ultimately the emotional problems or progress we may experience in life.

Drawing on his own twenty-five years of research on the brain and behavior, Schiffer gives us overwhelming evidence that each side of our brain possesses an autonomous, distinct personality -- with its own set of memories, motivations, and behaviors. In working with his patients, Schiffer discovered that strategically altering someone's visual field can positively or negatively affect that person's sense of well-being. He shows how using this technique of visual stimulation can activate the specific regions of the brain that harbor both traumatic and joyful memories. This dramatic breakthrough demonstrates how it is possible to access, isolate, and work with the memories encoded on one side of the brain.

Dr. Schiffer's dual-brain approach has yielded remarkable results with a wide range of emotional disorders, from anxiety and depression to addiction and stress-induced heart disease -- offering an exciting new perspective on therapy. Just as earlier investigations of the brain and its cognitive functions revolutionized our understanding of how we think, Of Two Minds transforms our understanding of how and why we experience emotional distress and conflicts, and suggests a path to a more harmonious, balanced relationship between our two selves.

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One of the best therapies.......2006-09-12

This method is probably one of the finest therapies I have been lucky enough to come across. Aside from the fact that the book is well written and easy to understand the concept is workable. From a clinical point of view the method is well researched but from a personal point of view the method is invaluable. There is a joke at the hospital that I worked at that the mental health doctors were as crazy as the patients but I think that in order to truly understand them you need to see the world through their eyes. Dr Schiffer seems to be able to do this. My father has severe depression and my brother Cerebal Palsy. So this book is not just professional but personal. I tried the glasses on my brother and for the first time I saw the difference. He is on occasion unable to control low-level fits. It took approx 30 secs for his brain to quiet itself and I also got to see a side of him I've never seen before. My brother has a genius IQ and two degrees and yet is unable to control his brain till now. He actually asked me for the glasses the other day when it flared again. Dr Schiffer you don't know me but thank-you from the bottom of my heart. You have helped me and my family. I hope that anyone that reads this book is helped as I have been.

Author's response to Alexei Lebedev.......2006-05-04

Alexei Lebedev wrote a very thoughtful review that I would like to respond to. First, the psychological ideas I present are built upon a large literature on cerebral laterality. In our laboratory at McLean Hospiital we have used placebo controlled studies to rule out the suggestion that very rightly concerns Mr. Lebedev. The glasses have been used also to predict which patients with severe depression will respond to transcranial magnetic stimulation over the left forehead. When I use the glasses in the office the way I describe in the book, then no doubt suggestion has some role, but there I am looking for a therapeutic response and am not conducting an experiment. As I reported, about a third of my patients have no response to the glasses, an other third had a mild response and the last group have rather profound responses along the mature/childish dichotomy. In our laboratory we have found that retesting subjects two times, a year apart, there was a very high correlation between trials. In the book, I describe patients who had the more dramatic responses. In patients who do not have responses, the findings from other patients can still be applied to them and can be very helpful in giving them a better concept of why they are suffering. That Mr. Lebedev did not have a profound response showing the mature/childish dichotomy is not surprising.

Mr. Lebedev's idea of blocking the ear is a good suggestion. I did not know when I wrote the book that Paul Green, Ph.D. had done considerable work using ear plugs to help patients with different conditions, and I have occassionally used them. The ears are not as strongly lateralized to the different hemispheres and the auditory ares are not as large as the visual areas, so auditory stimulation would not be expected to be as strong as visual stimulation. In my experience, I have found the visual stimulation to be much stronger in terms of eliciting different psychological responses.

I do not believe as my book led Mr. Lebedev understand that the visual information goes only to one side. Rather, we now have fMRI evidence showing that the glasses induce a large increase in brain blood flow in the opposite hemisphere. The lateralized glasses stimulate the opposite hemisphere as will contracting muscles on one side. Also I don't believe that the problems are "just in one hemisphere." Rather, from our EEG, evoke potential, and fMRI studies, and the psychological responses observed in placebo controlled studies, I believe that the glasses stimulate different sets of neural patterns that are associated in some way with the different hemispheres and with different psychological perspectives.

So I believe there is much science behind my hypothesis. A number of scientific papers from our laboratory are posted at SchifferMD.com. More importantly, I continue to find these ideas to be extremely helpful in my clinical practice.

Fredric Schiffer, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor in Psychiatry
Harvard Medical School

This is not science.......2006-04-29

The author's main theory is that psychological problems, such as anxiety or depression, can become internalized in just one hemisphere of the brain, with the other hemisphere remaining intact and normal. Sometimes, it's the left hemisphere that's damaged, sometimes it's the right.

Therapy consists of all the normal things psychotherapy consists of (talking, medicines), plus sessions with special goggles. These are googles where most of the surface is covered with tape, which allows visual information to only reach one hemisphere of the brain. The patients try on each pair of goggles and report their experiences. By "talking directly to the affected hemisphere", Mr. Schiffer helps his patients.

When I first read the book, I was very excited and immediately constructed a pair of goggles like Mr. Schiffer describes and tried them on. I watched TV with them, or just sat in one place. I could definitely feel some difference -- I felt a bit uneasy on one side. Then again, a similar effect occurs when you put your cell phone to your other ear. But nothing of the positive/negative or mature/childish effect described in the book.

What struck me about the book is the very unscientific approach of Mr. Schiffer. For example, a person will try on a pair of goggles and say "everything is gloomy". Mr. Schiffer will then say "try looking out the other side", which is not just an instruction to try the a pair of goggles, but also a psychological suggestion as well. The person then puts on the other goggles and proceeds to talk in a mature, optimistic way about the future. Doesn't Mr. Schiffer realize he's giving a suggestion to a person in a very receptive state?

Mr. Schiffer never addresses this obvious objection -- that it may be he who suggests to his patients what to do, by virtue of the fact that they're in a restrictive setting, by his expectation to see some difference. The metaphor suggested by the uneasy goggles is uneasy/comfortable, damaged/fixed, pessimistic/optimistic, weak/resourceful, sick/healthy.

In order for a psychotherapist to address one hemisphere, wouldn't it make more sense to plug the corresponding ear instead of taping off the visual field? Mr. Schiffer never does that when he has the patient try the goggles. Doesn't hearing with both ears stimulate both hemispheres equally?

So if Mr. Schiffer was not really "talking to the other hemisphere" as much as creating an idea in the patient's head that this was was being done, would it make any difference?

Subconsciousness Explained by Amazing Insight. A Must Read - Promised to Change Your Life!.......2005-11-01

This book is important. Take note.

The book explains who you are, no less. You are a rational person living side by side with SOMETHING.

That something is part hurt child, part wounded animal, part personality fragment. But it's there, with you at all time. String together all the occasions where you freaked out (it's the other side taking over), and you get the general idea. Quite a disturbed entity, eh?

Now, when the ground rules are set, we can proceed to heal that part of our brain, and rid ourselves of the burden of swimming upstream against its anguish and protests and fears. Be it the conventional EMDR psychotherapy procedue or the new age rebirthing technique, and certainly combined with a centering meditation like Zazen or SSY that stills the mind from unwanted thoughts - we can regain control on our lives and move on. And our cognition could flourish.

The unwanted train of thoughts, both it and its absence so lucidly defined in the first chapter of "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, might be caused by not having completely wrestled control over our consciousness, our very fabric of existence, from the other hemisphere. Ending internal conflict will enable us to properly utilize associative thinking ("IQ"), the very development of which happened in order to compensate for our fuzzy and imperfect grasp on reality.

Since we share that grasp with another mind, which Schiffer found is an irrational and miserable mind.

(converseley, the more your thoughts are naturally under control, the less creative you are, many prodigees are like that).

I believe this book holds a large part of the key to happiness and to harmonious existence. Where thoughts are a way to relate to reality, and not a frantic and largely irrational attempt to interpret it.

A clear 5 stars. An outstanding book.

Fascinating Theory You Can Experience Yourself.......2001-01-06

The book describes how you can easily stimulate one side of your brain and how this can affect your mood - and it works. After seeing Doctor Schiffer on 20/20, I tried for myself the simple test he described on TV and explains in the book. In less than a minute after covering all but my extreme left visual field, I was in tears. Trying the other side took away all my stress just as quickly and made me feel self-confident. The results of the two hemisphere theory Schiffer explains in this book worked for me. I've since shared the same test with friends and relatives. Without any previous explanation, they experience the same effects as the book predicts. This book outlines a real, practical and simple way to reduce stress. I highly recommend the book and encourage you to make your own pair of glasses as he describes. Just get a pair of $4 safety goggles and tape the lenses. My wife and I can really open up to each other by following the conversation techniques in the book, while wearing homemade pairs of glasses. I know we must look silly, but it works. My only complaint about Schiffer's book is that he focuses primarily on the theraputic value of his research. It would have been nice if he had explored the other possibilities of his discoveries. At least this book is not just another theoretical work. It has techniques in it that you can try yourself. Whether or not you believe his conclusions, you will experience the effect.

Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: A Practice Manual and Conceptual Guide

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Interesting book, theoretically
Made My Day
Outstanding guide to the treatment of anxiety disorders

Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders: A Practice Manual and Conceptual Guide
Adrian Wells
Manufacturer: Wiley
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ASIN: 0471964743

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Cognitive therapies are based on the idea that behavior and emotions result largely from an individual's appraisal of a situation, and are therefore influenced by that individual's beliefs, assumptions and images. This book is a comprehensive guide to cognitive therapy of anxiety disorders.

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Interesting book, theoretically.......2001-09-22

Very interesting book for cognitive therapist. Framework is built, chapters on each anxiety disorder are clear and pertinent. Theoretically, this book helps to conceptualise a cognitive approach. But, on the other side, although some tools are offered, sometimes you ask yourself if what is advocated is fully related to day-to-day treatment. Chapters on GAD and panic disorder are really good. Chapter on OCD is less good, because too theoretical, less practical.

Made My Day.......2000-07-17

I was planning an all day course for therapists on cognitive therapy for anxiety disorders when someone told me about Wells' book. It made my day or more accurately it made my day much easier. This book is clear in conceptualizing anxiety disorders with a cognitive model, illustrating them with diagrams and leading the therapist to the logical steps in treatment. I found it helpful not only in teaching but also in treating individual patients with anxiety. Any cognitive therapist will find this well thought out book a helpful source.

Outstanding guide to the treatment of anxiety disorders.......1998-07-16

This book is an excellent, state-of-the-art review and manual for the treatment of the major anxiety disorders. Wells provides clear, practical, and insightful examples of interventions in the treatment of generalized anxiety, panic, social phobia, health anxiety and ocd. This book will be helpful to clinicians who are new to cognitive-behavior therapy as well as therapists who are experienced in the model. The significant advances made by the groups at Oxford, Manchester, and the University of Pennsylvania are convincingly described here and important new applications are described.

Passive-Aggression: A Guide for the Therapist, the Patient and the Victim

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The PA
Understanding Leads to Healing

Passive-Aggression: A Guide for the Therapist, the Patient and the Victim
Martin Kantor
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ASIN: 0275974227

Book Description

With absorbing detail and deftness, Kantor gives clinical descriptions of the dynamics in this overlooked syndrome: Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder. It is a syndrome rooted in poorly suppressed, thinly disguised, and indirectly unleashed anger. This volume presents a scientifically based approach to the patient that will help him or her deal with anger in a healthier, and sometimes life-saving, way. An eclectic approach--including psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, and interpersonal techniques--is used to answer the two most important questions of passive-aggression: Why is the passive-aggressive so angry? And why cannot he or she express the anger more directly? Therapists can also use this approach to help the victims of passive-aggression and minimize the suffering that occurs in relationships with these difficult people.

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The PA.......2007-03-29

This is a fascinating book. It has definitely changed my general definiton of what PA means. I am amazed at how much material is presented for the 5 types of styles identified. How they are manifested in an individual or in otherwords how it all began in the first place. This book is set up for the therapist but it presented in such a manner that an ordinary person outside this field can understand the concept presented. The author is so thorough with his information that he presents a concept and then vividly illustrates this concept with as many examples that would make the material comprehensible. It explores the relationship between the victim and the PA person. It offers a variety of therapy applications for some of the styles presented.

A unique finding was the book's glimpse of how the therapist can also be PA towards it client;and how the therapist can miss the PA in a person diagnosis.

Understanding Leads to Healing.......2002-08-23

Dr. Kantor has written a book that is unequalled in thoroughness
regarding passive-aggression (PA).

Book Description

Although the treatment of patients with various disorders of personality have been discussed in clinical literature since the early days of psychotherapy, the general literature on the psychotherapeutic treatment of personality disorders has emerged more recently, and is growing quickly. It is also in recent times that cognitive behavioral therapists have offered a structured, active, and directive treatment approach, in addition to advocating the use of a wide range of cognitive and behavioral techniques for addressing personality disorders. Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders specifies a number of effective and realistic treatment strategies that focus on both the temperament and character dimensions of personality and degree of severity of the disorder.

The book is divided into two parts. In the first part of the book, the author introduces the reader to the paradigm shift that is presently taking place in behavioral health in the treatment of personality disorders. He alsoexplains both the character and the temperament dimensions that are manifest in personality-disordered individuals. The second half of the book offers a clear description of an integrative and practical approach to the treatment of the six personality disorders most commonly seen in clinical practice. Extended case studies illustrate the process of treatment for each of these disorders and show how to use these various intervention strategies. Overall, this book highlights both cognitive and behavioral interventions, catalogues the maladaptive schema observed in specific personality disorders, and outlines fifteen common structured treatment interventions. In addition, although the author emphasizes the usefulness and effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions in individual treatment, he also presents other modalities and intervention strategies. These include: medications, group therapy and interventions, family interventions, and couples therapy.

The book's focus on achieving positive treatment outcomes offers hope to both the clinician and the patient. By providing a workable, realistic treatment protocol for these six disorders, Cognitive Behavior Therapy of DSM-IV Personality Disorders proves to be a valuable addition to the library of the practicing clinician and clinician-in-training.

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