Just About Coping - A Real-Life Drama from the Psychotherapist's Chair

At the psychologist''s clinic of an NHS hospital, Noah needs help with procrastination, Bill compulsively lies, Steph is coping with rejection and their therapist, Dr Natalie, is dealing with her own emotional crisis, breathing into a paper bag between patient sessions. In this lively and honest memoir of training to be a psychotherapist, we meet the patients grappling with mental health issues, from OCD and addiction to self-deception and self-harming, and see how Dr Natalie helps them understand and change these attempts to self-soothe. Funny, poignant and full of ''aha'' moments, Just About Coping is a journey into our inner worlds, where the drama of our break-ups, breakdowns and breakthroughs takes place. In times of stress and suffering, Dr Natalie reveals, we are all just about coping. None of us is immune - not even your therapist.

About the author

Dr Natalie Cawley is a psychotherapist and counselling psychologist with a BSc, MSc and PsychD in psychology and has worked and trained in both the NHS and private practice, within paediatric and adult services. Her experience covers a wide range of health conditions and clinical presentations in the community and within psychiatric hospitals. Her specialism in attachment theory, the driving force behind our psychological and emotional functioning, informs all her therapeutic work. Her hobbies include stand-up comedy – mostly watching, although she has performed a set about bad dates that went better than expected. She lives and works in Manchester. Just About Coping is her first book.

Product details

• Authors: Natalie Cawley
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2024
• EAN: 9781035011803
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501180-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 224 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (incl. Patients), Psychotherapy: general, Autobiography: science, technology and medicine, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical (inc Patients)