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What is chairwork? At its most essential, there are two basic forms of psychotherapeutic dialogue. In the first, known as the “empty chair” dialogue, the patient is invited to sit in one chair and to imagine a person in the opposite chair. Typically, this is a person with whom they have some kind of “unfinished business” or unresolved emotional connection. In the second form, the patient is often working with inner conflicts. In the case of a decision, they can express a viewpoint in one chair and then switch to the one opposite to express the alternative view. This is known as the two-chair dialogue. It is, perhaps, time to let go of this convention and organize our use of these therapeutic encounters in terms of whether they are “external” or “internal”; that is, did the therapist ask the patient to dialogue with a person or object outside of him- or herself or with an internal force or experience?
With the next cognitive technique, patients learn to conduct dialogues between their “schema side” and “healthy side.” Adapting the Gestalt “empty chair” technique, the therapist instructs patients to switch chairs as they play the two sides: In one chair they play the schema side, in the other they play the healthy side.
The most important emotion-focused techniques in Schema Therapy are role-playing and guided imagery.. Schema Therapy borrows role-playing techniques from Gestalt Therapy...The two-chair method is the best known of these techniques. The patient sits in one chair when he plays one role, then switches chairs when assuming a different role. More than two chairs may be used to accommodate multiple roles. When switching chairs, patients ‘‘embody’’ the roles they are playing, making the feelings, thoughts, memories, and physical sensations associated with each role more alive and palpable. The ‘‘schema dialogue’’ is the simplest form of role-play used by schema therapists. In mode work, therapists ask patients to play different sides of themselves (i.e., different modes), switching chairs as they assume the role of different modes.
