Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy

by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

This is the Third Edition of the best-selling self help psychotherapy program for lay people and students of psychotherapy since first publication in 1990. The new edition offers a therapeutic dialogic relationship between reader and author. It includes the most recent development in CAT practice and places greater emphasis upon the transformation of unhelpful learned reciprocal role procedures that underlie relationship to oneself and to others. Change in symptoms occur when new and beneficial reciprocal roles are created.

Genres: Self Help, Psychology, Nonfiction

280 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1990

Reviews

[Amanda Copeland]

The 'bible' of Cognitive Analytic Therapy. A useful self help book that provides patients and quite a few therapists with an introduction to the basic principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy in a readable and logically presented format.

Change for the Better is for everyone who has ever wanted to change, but has found that anything beyond superficial change is difficult. We may continue to feel stuck, helpless, and angry as old ways of thinking reassert themselves.

Presenting an easy-to-follow programme, this book helps to develop insights into the old patterns that govern our choices. It shows how to identify unhelpful patterns of behaviour and how to go about changing them in a realistic way.

Highly recommended ++++++

[Emma]

Much more than a self help book.