Change for the Better

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ISBN: 9781446208144
Author/Editor: McCormick

Publisher: Sage

Year: 2012

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readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date.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

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Weight 0.86 kg

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Year of Publication

2012

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION About Cognitive Analytic Therapy About Mindfulness PART ONE: WHO ARE WE? WHAT ARE WE MADE OF? WHAT CAN CHANGE? Change Is Possible PART TWO: 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 PART THREE: GETTING OFF THE SYMPTOM HOOK: NAMING THE PROBLEM Traps Dilemmas Snags and Self-Sabotage PART FOUR: THE TIP OF THE EMOTIONAL ICEBERG: EMOTIONAL STATES, DEPRESSION AND SYMPTOMS Unbearable and Unmanageable Feelings How Unmanageable Feelings Become Symptoms PART FIVE: THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER The Challenge of Shifting States Living on the Borderline PART SIX: GATHERING INFORMATION Examining the Impact of Our Beginnings PART SEVEN: 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 PART EIGHT: CHANGING WITHIN A RELATIONSHIP Love Is Not Enough PART NINE: HOLDING ONTO CHANGE Creative Ways of Practising with and Holding on to Change PART TEN: RESOURCE DIRECTORY FOR THERAPISTS CAT Skills CAT Theory and Practice CAT Research

Author

McCormick

ISBN/ISSN

9781446208144

Binding

Hardback

Edition

4

Publisher

Sage

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