Imagery Work In Schema Therapy. In this article i hope to provide five practical ideas to help fine tune and develop imagery work within schema therapy. Eliciting upsetting childhood memories in the form of images of experiences with mother father and other significant people.
In a randomized controlled trial with 12 couples we compared the effects of couple imagery rescripting exercises and a cognitive intervention based on the schema therapy model in a crossover. Asking the client to carry on dialogues with these people. Experiential techniques in particular seem to contribute to those effects.
Schema therapy has shown good effectiveness in individual and group settings.
The effectiveness of imagery work in schema therapy with couples. As george lockwood wrote this is accomplished by. In the penultimate blog of his series on using schema therapy to work with complex trauma dan roberts talks us through a piece of imagery rescripting work that helped to de traumatise a. Sexual and relationship therapy.