Joan Farrell, PhD, is codirector of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest?Indianapolis Center, adjunct faculty in the department of psychology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, and University of Indianapolis, and training director of the Center for BPD Treatment at Indiana University School of Medicine, both in Indianapolis. Dr. Farrell also is a licensed psychologist, certified schema therapist supervisor, executive board member of the International Society for Schema Therapy and coauthor, with Ida Shaw, of Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (Wiley-Blackwell).
In college, I worked as an aide on the psychiatric ward of a major university hospital. I recall a patient…
