Imagery Rescripting

REMCO VAN DER WIJNGAART is a health psychologist and psychotherapist. He worked for twenty years in an academic department of an outpatient mental health institution, where he participated in numerous treatment studies for anxiety, personality disorders, somatoform disorders, and eating disorders. In a pioneering study into the effectiveness of schema therapy for borderline personality disorder, he was trained and supervised in imagery rescripting by Jeffrey Young, the founder of schema therapy. He has also been trained by Aaron Beck, Joan Farrell, and Ida Shaw. Remco is currently a psychotherapist, trainer, and supervisor in cognitive behavioural therapy and schema therapy at a private practice in Maastricht. He has taught schema therapy for forensic settings together with David Bernstein and gives regular presentations, workshops, and supervision on schema therapy both within the Netherlands and internationally.

Foreword by Professor Arnoud Arntz 1. Introduction 2. Diagnostic imagery 3. Imagery rescripting - the therapist rewrites 4. Advanced imagery rescripting - the client rewrites 5. Future-oriented imagery rescripting to break negative patterns 6. Specialised fields of application and forms of imagery rescripting 7. Pitfalls for therapists Appendices