Full Description
This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on:
· Trauma and Complex Trauma
· Mindfulness
· Relational mapping
· Group Work.
Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
Contents
Foreword by Dr Jason Hepple
Acknowledgements
About Cognitive Analytic Therapy
About Mindfulness
Part One Change is possible
1 Why change? What is it that changes? How to begin the process of change
Part Two The Building Blocks of Who We Are
Feelings, emotions and relationships: with ourselves and others
2 Understanding relating and core emotional pain
3 Problems and dilemmas within relationships
Part Three Getting Off the Symptom Hook
4 Traps
5 Dilemmas
6 Snags and self-sabotage
Part Four: The Tip of the Emotional Iceberg
7 Unbearable and unmanageable feelings
8 How unmanageable feelings and beliefs become symptoms
Part Five The Emotional Roller-Coaster
9 Shifting emotional states and trauma
Part Six Gathering Information
10 Examining the impact of our beginnings
Part Seven Making the Change
11 Writing our life story
12 Targeting the procedures that create problems and deciding on aims for change
13 Maps and diagrams
14 Techniques for working through the process of change, and how to hold on to change
Part Eight Changing within a Relationship
15 Love is not enough
Part Nine Resources for Students and Therapists and for Co-counsellors
18 The theory and practice of CAT
Appendices
