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Professor David Edwards

http://www.schematherapysouthafrica.co.za/

David Edwards lives in Cape Town, South Africa, where he runs a training program in schema therapy through the Schema Therapy Institute of South Africa. He is registered as a Clinical Psychologist in South Africa and the United Kingdom. He is currently President of the ISST.  He trained in cognitive-behavioural, humanistic and transpersonal approaches to psychotherapy, and has a longstanding interest in psychotherapy integration. In the 1980s, he  was fortunate to attend seminars with Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy,  and has followed the development of schema therapy since its beginnings. For over 25 years, he taught cognitive-behavioural therapy to trainee clinical and counselling psychologists at Rhodes University, and offered intensive workshops to students using expressive therapies including psychodrama, clay sculpture, drawing and dance. He retired from a full time academic position at Rhodes University at the end of 2009 but remains on contract as a researcher and supervisor.  In addition to offering basic and advanced training workshops in schema therapy, he has an active private practice offering psychotherapy and clinical supervision.

He has over 100 academic publications in the form of journal articles and book chapters.  The focus of many of these is trauma and complex trauma.  Several of them are clinical case studies.  He has published several papers on case study methodology and is one of the editors of the recently published Case studies within psychotherapy trials: Integrating qualitative and quantitative methods (Oxford University Press). He has also written articles and book chapters on the history and application of imagery methods in psychotherapy and is the author, with Michael Jacobs, of Conscious and unconscious in the series Core concepts in psychotherapy (McGraw Hill, 2003).  The focus of his current work is on the phenomenology of schema modes and understanding the deep structure of modes.  This is reflected in a recent pair of articles on modes in a case of anorexia nervosa (Edwards 2017a and Edwards 2017b).  These as well as many of his publications are available in full text from his ResearchGate page at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Edwards16/contributions


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