Change for the Better

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.

The best possible compendium on Cognitive Analytic Therapy, presented clearly and thoughtfully in this latest edition.

• Foreword by Dr Jason HeppleAcknowledgementsAbout Cognitive Analytic TherapyAbout MindfulnessPart One Change is possible1 Why change? What is it that changes? How to begin the process of changePart Two The Building Blocks of Who We AreFeelings, emotions and relationships: with ourselves and others2Understanding relating and core emotional pain3Problems and dilemmas within relationshipsPart Three Getting Off the Symptom Hook4Traps5Dilemmas6Snags and self-sabotagePart Four: The Tip of the Emotional Iceberg7Unbearable and unmanageable feelings8How unmanageable feelings and beliefs become symptomsPart Five The Emotional Roller-Coaster9Shifting emotional states and traumaPart Six Gathering Information10Examining the impact of our beginningsPart Seven Making the Change11Writing our life story12 Targeting the procedures that create problems and deciding on aims for change13Maps and diagrams14Techniques for working through the process of change, and how to hold on to changePart Eight Changing within a Relationship15Love is not enoughPart Nine Resources for Students and Therapists and for Co-counsellors18The theory and practice of CATAppendices