Schema therapy offers psychotherapists a model for clearly and coherently conceptualizing human complexity in a transparent, accessible form. It is a remarkable map for finding one’s way through the dense forest of human experience.

Schemas, the pivotal concept of this therapy, are emotional memories built up through our life experiences. They largely determine our view of the world and, consequently, 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.

This 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.

It opens the door to a real transformation of schemas.