ABSTRACT
Schema Therapy involves two fundamental therapeutic stances ± limited reparenting and empathic confrontation. We devote the next two Points to these concepts.
The central project of Schema Therapy is to help adults get their own emotional needs met, even when these needs may have never been met in the past. To achieve that, the therapy relationship itself needs to be one in which the patient's needs are recognized, articulated, validated, and ± within certain boundaries ± ful®lled. The most important ful®llment is of those needs that were not met by the patients' parents when they were children. We refer to this bounded ful®llment of needs as limited reparenting.
