Change for the Better: Personal development through practical psychotherapy

by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

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.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology

312 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1990

Reviews

[Amanda Copeland · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Much more than a self help book.