The use of the CAT model in the supervision of CAT therapists working with borderline personality disorder

From the outset, we would both like to echo Anthony Ryle’s words, and ‘confess . . . that, in general, [ we ] like borderline patients; [ we ] have learnt a great deal from them, and [ we ] have found that, once [ we ] come to know their stories, [ we ] have usually felt moved and fi lled with respect for what they have endured and achieved. To be able to like them it is necessary to understand them and this demands that one has a way of making sense of their often painfully destructive experiences and acts’ (Ryle 1997: xii).