基本説明
It shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness-based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change.
Full Description
Change for the Better is for anyone interested in making lasting changes in both their inner and outer lives. It uses a conversational style to help readers identify their own learned patterns of thinking and relating that underlie and contribute to emotional suffering such depression, anxiety, phobia, eating disorders, relationship and psychosomatic problems. It shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness- based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change.This bestselling book has helped many people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also practitioners of psychotherapy work with their patients. It's continuing popularity has prompted this fourth edition which features up to date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and from mindfulness.Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy at Guy's Hospital, London, and the author of a number of best-selling self-help books.
Contents
INTRODUCTIONAbout Cognitive Analytic TherapyAbout MindfulnessPART ONERELATIONSHIPS: WITH OURSELVES AND OTHERSUnderstanding Relating: Reciprocal Relationship ProceduresProblems and Dilemmas within RelationshipsPART THREE: GETTING OFF THE SYMPTOM HOOK: NAMING THE PROBLEMTrapsDilemmasSnags and DEPRESSION AND SYMPTOMSUnbearable and Unmanageable FeelingsHow Unmanageable Feelings Become SymptomsPART FIVE: THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTERThe Challenge of Shifting StatesLiving on the BorderlinePART SIX: GATHERING INFORMATIONExamining the Impact of Our BeginningsPART SEVEN: MAKING THE CHANGEWriting Our Life StoryTargeting the Procedures That Create Problems and Deciding on Aims for ChangePutting a Diagram in Your PocketTechniques for Working through the Process of ChangePART EIGHT: CHANGING WITHIN A RELATIONSHIPLove Is Not EnoughPART NINE: HOLDING ONTO CHANGECreative Ways of Practising with and Holding on to ChangePART TEN: RESOURCE DIRECTORY FOR THERAPISTSCAT SkillsCAT Theory and PracticeCAT Research
