Schema Therapy and The Work

Schema Therapy is a new form of therapy that supposedly is good for handling personality disorders and chronic depression. It is described as integrating elements of cognitive therapy, behavior therapy, object relations, and gestalt therapy into one unified, systematic approach to treatment. The website includes free slideshows describing the treatment form.


On the subject of new therapy forms, I've recently been experimenting with using The Work of Byron Katie with a few people with problematic family relationships. I've seen improvements in all the cases, including one where the father had asked two days after "What's happened to you? You're all different towards me."

I'm very excited about The Work; I don't really know much I can say about it beyond Try It! The book Loving What Is says more than enough to get you started. And, of course, feel free to post questions, and I'll answer as well as I can.

(outlink) The Farrelly Factors

Frank Farrelly is the originator of the "Provocative Therapy" school of therapy, based on bullying the patient until the patient gets well. Well, it's slightly more structured and thought through than that - a really interesting form of therapy (and one of the major inspiration sources for Richard Bandler).

Jaap Hollander has modelled Frank Farrelly, and have written an article called The Farrelly Factors, detailing 39 behaviours Frank Farrelly uses when treating clients. I find having read the book Provocative Therapy by Frank Farrelly and Jeff Brandsma useful for understanding these patterns; it might be essential.

Huna

What's Huna and why am I linking to it? From Hunamind:

Huna is a Hawaiian word for "secret" and Max Freedom Long used it to name the techniques/religion/philosophy that he distilled from Hawaiian and other sources. There is no such things as "huna" that westerner would like to see. Huna Research counted over 2600 "schools of huna" on Hawaiian islands. If you say huna and someone else says huna, you are not necessarily talking about the exactly same thing.

Some see this as the best self-help/influence/psychology tradition of them all, and many of the "gurus" recommend it (Tad James, Style, ...)

Anyway, I almost forgot what I was about to tell you: There's a new Huna Directory

NOTE: I have placed this with a "therapy" label, with some doubts.