ABSTRACT

Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Distinctive Features offers an introduction to what is distinctive about this increasingly popular method. Written by three Cognitive Analytic Therapists, with many years’ experience, it provides an accessible, bitesize overview of this increasingly used psychological therapy. Using the popular Distinctive Features format, this book describes 15 theoretical features and 15 practical techniques of Cognitive Analytic Therapy.

Cognitive Analytic Therapy will be a valuable source for students, professionals in training and practising therapists, as well as other psychotherapists, counsellors and mental health professionals wishing to learn more about the distinctive features of this important therapy.

part 1|67 pages

Theoretical Features

chapter 1|3 pages

Development of Cognitive Analytic Therapy

chapter 2|5 pages

Development of reciprocal roles

chapter 3|3 pages

Development of survival strategies

chapter 4|3 pages

Contribution of cognitive theories

chapter 5|4 pages

Contribution of object relations theories

chapter 6|4 pages

Dialogic perspective

chapter 8|5 pages

Multiple Self States Model

chapter 9|4 pages

Transference and countertransference

chapter 10|3 pages

Structure of CAT and the three R’s

chapter 11|4 pages

Reformulation

chapter 12|3 pages

Recognition

chapter 13|4 pages

Revision

chapter 14|4 pages

Ending

chapter 15|3 pages

Empirical matters

part 2|85 pages

Practical Features

chapter 16|5 pages

Therapeutic stance

chapter 17|5 pages

Suitability for CAT

chapter 18|6 pages

Assessment and case conceptualisation

chapter 19|6 pages

Writing a reformulation letter

chapter 20|6 pages

Mapping

chapter 21|3 pages

Development of the ‘Observing Eye’

chapter 22|4 pages

Developing exits

chapter 23|5 pages

Developing healthy reciprocal roles

chapter 24|5 pages

When therapy gets stuck

chapter 25|5 pages

Ending and writing a goodbye letter

chapter 26|7 pages

Working with complexity

chapter 27|5 pages

The versatility of CAT

chapter 28|3 pages

Group work

chapter 29|5 pages

Indirect work

chapter 30|3 pages

Afterthoughts