Change for the Better
Personal development through practical psychotherapy
5th Edition
Published on 31. July 2017
312 pages
978-1-5264-2576-8 (ISBN)
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.
? Trauma and Complex Trauma
? Mindfulness
? Relational mapping
? Group Work.
Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
Reviews / Votes
The best possible compendium on Cognitive Analytic Therapy, presented clearly and thoughtfully in this latest edition. -- Susie Orbach, Psychotherapist Elizabeth McCormick has the unusual ability to transform psychotherapeutic concepts into a language that enables clients to draw on these models for their own use. This book should be recommended to anyone wishing to understand and work through their suffering and to gain greater clarity and emotional resilience. -- Jane Ryan This is that rare thing - a wise, compassionate and above all practical book, grounded in years of good psychotherapy practice. Imbued with the understanding that we are selves in relation to others, it is straightforward without being simplistic. It delivers what it promises, whether for self-help, a supportive resource in therapy or as a readable introduction to therapeutic change -- Glenys Parry, Emeritus Professor It's tough to combine a wise, compassionate and practical book in one - but this succeeds well -- Julia BuenoAll prices
More details
Edition
Fifth Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5264-2576-8 (9781526425768)
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5th Edition
SAGE Publications Ltd
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08/2017
5th Edition
SAGE Publications Ltd
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Person
Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years in both private and NHS settings. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. Her background is in social psychiatry, humanistic and transpersonal psychology and cognitive analytic therapy. She has had an interest for many years in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness and in the process of change. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the author of a number of books including Living On The Edge, Surviving Breakdown, The Pale Green Room and Your Heart and You.
Content
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
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
