Change for the Better

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

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