Cognitive-analytic Therapy - Active Participation in Change

About the author Anthony Ryle qualified in medicine in 1949 and was until 1964 in general practice where his interest in neuroses and therapy began and where his first research was carried out. He was Director of the University Health Service at the University of Sussex until 1979. He is currently consultant psychotherapist at the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas's Hospital in London where he is active in both research and teaching and in the development of Cognitive - Analytic Therapy.

The origins and main features of CAT; the reformulation process and the uses of writing; basic treatment procedures; 12 sessions - an edited transcript; complex reformulation and object relations theory; treating patients with personality disorders; CAT techniques with long-term patients; CAT and couple therapy; the use of CAT in various clinical settings - in general practice, in a social work setting, in the forensic services, in private practice; the theoretical basis of CAT; developments in cognitive therapy and CAT; CAT, psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy; teaching, supervising and learning CAT; the evaluation of CAT.