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.

This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on:
• Trauma and Complex Trauma
• Mindfulness
• Relational mapping
• Group Work.

Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.

CONTENTS: 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 / 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

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over twenty five years. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and is the author of a number of best-selling self-help books.