Change for the Better : Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy

by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

• ISBN13: 9781446208151
• ISBN10: 144620815X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-05-15
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd

Summary

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. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick 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readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date.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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

About Cognitive Analytic Therapy

About Mindfulness

Who Are WE? What Are We Made OF? What is It That Can Change?

Change Is Possible

The Building Blocks of Who We Are: Feelings, Emotions and Relationships: with Ourselves and Others

Understanding Relating: Reciprocal Relationship Procedures

Problems and Dilemmas within Relationships

Getting Off The Symptom Hook: Naming The Problem

Traps

Dilemmas

Snags and Self-Sabotage

The Tip of The Emotional Iceberg: Emotional States, Depression, and Symptoms

Unbearable Feelings

How Unmanageable Feelings Become Symptoms

The Emotional Roller Coaster

The Challenge of Shifting States

Living on the Borderline

Gathering Information

Examining the Impact of Our Beginnings

Making The Change

Writing Our Life Story

Targeting the Procedures That Create Problems and Deciding on Aims for Change

Putting a Diagram in Your Pocket

Techniques for Working Through the Process of Change

Changing Within a Relationship

Love is Not Enough

Holding Onto Change

Creative Ways of Practicing with and Holding on to Change

Resource Directory For Therapists

CAT Skills

CAT Theory and Practice

CAT Research

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