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.

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
2Understanding relating and core emotional pain
3Problems and dilemmas within relationships
Part Three Getting Off the Symptom Hook
4Traps
5Dilemmas
6Snags and self-sabotage
Part Four: The Tip of the Emotional Iceberg
7Unbearable and unmanageable feelings
8How unmanageable feelings and beliefs become symptoms
Part Five The Emotional Roller-Coaster
9Shifting emotional states and trauma
Part Six Gathering Information
10Examining the impact of our beginnings
Part Seven Making the Change
11Writing our life story
12 Targeting the procedures that create problems and deciding on aims for change
13Maps and diagrams
14Techniques for working through the process of change, and how to hold on to change
Part Eight Changing within a Relationship
15Love is not enough
Part Nine Resources for Students and Therapists and for Co-counsellors
18The theory and practice of CAT
Appendices