Change for the better: self-help through practical psychotherapy

It is based upon cognitive analytic therapy, a focused short-term intervention which is taught and practised both in the United Kingdom and abroad. It describes, in ordinary language, how learned patterns of responses to relating andthinking contribute to psychological problems such as depression, anxiety, phobia and relationship difficulty. The book shows readers how to identify theirown different inner dialogues, and the traps, dilemmas, snags and unstable states of mind that lead to things going wrong. It offers help with the creationof written narrative and diagrams based upon the readers’ own self-reflection, and mindfulness-based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout thetext to help nourish self-awareness and change. Updated and revised, the Third Edition includes new chapters on unstable states of mind seen in people given a borderline personality diagnosis, on dissociation, eating problems and stress.

• ISBN: 978-1-4129-4826-5
• Editorial: Sage Publications
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 258
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés