Schema Therapy and Memory Reconsolidation
| Language of origin | |
|---|---|
| Publication date | |
| Infos : | 224 pages |
| Rights representation | |
| Rights Sold |
for Transformational Change
The book explores the pivotal concept of schemas, which are the emotional memories built up through our life experiences that largely determine our view of the world and 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.
The 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.
“This masterful book by Cousineau and Côté is a tremendous service not only to schema therapy and its worldwide practitioners, but also to the psychotherapy field as a whole, because it shows how to retool and maximize the effectiveness of a well-established therapy system with our 21st-century knowledge of memory reconsolidation as the brain’s core process of liberating, transformational change.”
Bruce Ecker, LMFT, co-founder of coherence therapy, co-director of the Coherence Psychology Institute, and co-author of Unlocking the Emotional Brain
“Cousineau and Côté present a thoughtful roadmap for aligning the strengths of schema therapy with a precise understanding of what the brain needs to truly unlearn entrenched predictive models. This book is a generous and valuable contribution to the global community of therapists.”
Tori Olds, PhD, co-founder of Deep Eddy Psychotherapy, one of the largest therapy and training centers in Texas, USA
Forthcoming: 2nd edition, February 2027.
READERSHIP: Psychologists, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists.
Related products
Pierre Cousineau
Pierre Cousineau is a psychologist in private practice in Quebec, Canada. He practices and teaches schema therapy, supervises psychotherapists, writes on the subject, and integrates therapeutic memory reconsolidation into his approach.