ABSTRACT
Schema Therapy is strongly relational and interpersonal. Schema therapists are not a neutral screen on which the patient can project ± they are very actively present in the room. The particular type of presence distinguishes Schema Therapy from psychodynamic therapy on the one hand, but also from other schools of CBT on the other. This is because, unlike other cognitive behavioral therapists, schema therapists are guided by the ideas of limited reparenting and empathic confrontation.
