Dealing with Anger! Including Therapists Schema Activation

Anger can often activate therapist's schemas, compromising the healthy adult mode leading to maladaptive responses, i.e. stifling the patient ́s anger too quickly or punitively, subjugating themselves to the patient ́s abuse, colluding with challenging issues of entitlement or insufficient self control. So the therapist ́s competence for empathic confrontation or limit setting and meeting the unmet core needs is impaired.

This workshop will provide strategies for discerning angry and bullying overcompensating modes and for effectively addressing them, including realizing and differentiating these modes, getting aware and using our personal schema activations and using them for effective empathic confrontation and limit setting, that help patients safely experience childhood origins and verbalize links to the emotional messages imbedded in their anger leading to a replacement of overshooting angry reactions by healthy and adaptive responses.

About Wendy Behary:

Wendy Behary is the founder and director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. In the field for more than 20 years, she has worked together with Jeff Young since 1989. Wendy is the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (2013), and has authored and co- authored several chapters and articles on schema therapy and cognitive therapy. She lectures in the United States and internationally, spreading the message of Schema Therapy to clinicians throughout the world. She has been the ISST President from 2010 to 2014. Wendy currently chairs the “Brainstorming” subcommittee of the ISST. 

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