Schema mode	Description
Self‐aggrandizer	Believes he is superior to others and entitled to special rights. Insists he should be able to do or have what he wants, regardless of what others think. Shows off and denigrates others to augment self‐esteem. Plays superior to compensate for inner feelings of inferiority, inadequacy, or doubt.
Attention and approval seeker	Tries to obtain approval and attention of others by exaggerated behaviour, erotomania, or grandiosity.
Perfectionistic Overcontroller	Uses excessive control and perfectionism as strategy to avoid making mistakes and/or feeling guilty for things that go wrong.
Suspicious Overcontroller	Excessive scrutinizing control used by people with paranoid PD to cope with abundant feelings of mistrust and suspicion
Avoidant protector	Situational avoidance as survival strategy. Leads to loneliness, putting off decisions and important tasks, and an empty and boring life.
Compliant surrender	Complies with other people's wishes and suppresses own wishes as a survival strategy. This slave‐like strategy might create inner resentment.
Detached protector	Detaches from inner needs, emotions, and thoughts as a survival strategy. There might be interpersonal contact, but there is lack of connection. The person feels empty.
Self‐soother	Seeks distraction to not feel negative emotions. He achieves this by self‐soothing behaviour (e.g., sleeping or substance abuse) or by self‐stimulating activities (being fanatical or occupied with work, the internet, sport, or sex).
Demanding parent	Internalization of high demands by parents/caretakers about productivity, perfectionism, social status, and moral issues. Not meeting the standards leads to feeling bad and ashamed.
Punitive parent	Aggressive, intolerant, impatient, and unforgiving toward himself. Self‐critical and feels guilty. Ashamed of mistakes and believes he has to be punished severely for them. This mode is a reflection of what (one of) the parents or other educators used to say to the patient to belittle or punish him for expressing needs and emotions, assertiveness, and autonomy.
Impulsive child	Wants to satisfy his (non‐core) desires in a selfish and uncontrolled manner. Cannot control his feelings and impulses and becomes enraged and infuriated when his (non‐core) desires or impulses are not met. He often behaves like a spoiled child.
Undisciplined child	Has no tolerance of frustration and cannot force himself to finish routine or boring tasks. Cannot bear dissatisfaction or discomfort (pain, conflict, or overexertion) and behaves like a spoiled child.
Enraged child	Feels enraged for the same reason as the Angry Child, but loses control. This rage expressed in offensive and injurious actions toward people and objects, in the same way as a small child hurts his parents.
Angry Child	Feels intensely angry, enraged, and impatient because his core needs are not being met. Can also feel abandoned, humiliated, or betrayed. Expresses his anger in extreme manifestations, both verbal and nonverbal, just like a small child who has an outburst of anger.
Dependent child	State in which the person feels, thinks, and acts like a little child confronted with (practical) tasks the child does not know how to handle.
Abandoned/abused child	State in which the person feels the abandonment or abuse experienced as a child again, or fears repetition of such experiences.
Lonely child	State in which the person feels the loneliness and/or inferiority experienced as a little child.
Healthy Adult	State in which the person takes care of him/herself and of other people in a healthy, mature way. Good balance between own needs and those of other people.