Living on the Edge

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.

• PART ONE - MAPPING THE EDGEGeneral Images and Definitions of the EdgeNaming Our Individual EdgesMaps of BeingPaths of InitiationPART TWO - ASPECTS OF THE EDGEPreparing to Explore the EdgeChaosExhaustionWhen the Well Runs DryLoss and Fear of LossGrey Melancholy and Black DepressionAnger and RageVulnerabilityAloneness and AlienationMeeting the TricksterWaitingPART THREE - DANGERS OF THE EDGEFalse GodsPART FOUR - STEPPING STONES AND SAFE PLACES FOR THE EDGEStepping Stones and Safe Places