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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. Zusammenfassung This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Dr Jason Hepple Acknowledgements About Cognitive Analytic Therapy About Mindfulness Part One Change is possible 1 Why change? What is it that changes? How to begin the process of change Part Two The Building Blocks of Who We Are Feelings, emotions and relationships: with ourselves and others 2 Understanding relating and core emotional pain 3 Problems and dilemmas within relationships Part Three Getting Off the Symptom Hook 4 Traps 5 Dilemmas 6 Snags and self-sabotage Part Four: The Tip of the Emotional Iceberg 7 Unbearable and unmanageable feelings 8 How unmanageable feelings and beliefs become symptoms Part Five The Emotional Roller-Coaster 9 Shifting emotional states and trauma Part Six Gathering Information 10 Examining the impact of our beginnings Part Seven Making the Change 11 Writing our life story 12 Targeting the procedures that create problems and deciding on aims for change 13 Maps and diagrams 14 Techniques for working through the process of change, and how to hold on to change Part Eight Changing within a Relationship 15 Love is not enough Part Nine Resources for Students and Therapists and for Co-counsellors 18 The theory and practice of CAT Appendices ...
