Main description:

Brings together the latest thinking in Cognitive Analytic Therapy

Contents:

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

Richard Handley's story

Forward

1. Introduction: cognitive analytic therapy and the politics of mental health

JULIE LLOYD AND RACHEL POLLARD

2. Reciprocal roles in an unequal world

HILARY BROWN

3. Putting the social into psychotherapy: implications for CAT

TERESA HAGAN, NICOLA ARMSTRONG AND JAN BOSTOCK.

4. The de-radicalisation of CAT: a regressive interaction of economics, theory and practice?

RACHEL POLLARD

5. The madness of money: the super-rich, economic inequality and mental health

LAWRENCE WELCH

6. The intergenerational transmission of the adverse effects of inequality

JOSEPHINE F. DISCEPOLO AHMADI

7. Using CAT to bridge the gap: attending to the ultimate and the intimate

EMILY HANDLEY, BETH GREENHILL AND KIERON BEARD

8. From deviance and sin to unmet needs: a CAT conceptualisation of challenging behaviour

JO VARELA

9. Responding not reacting to challenging behaviour: a reformulation approach

JO VARELA AND LIANNE FRANKS

10. Transforming care in England for people who have intellectual disabilities and forensic formulations

PHILIP CLAYTON

11. Unequal ground: working with people affected by child sexual abuse

JULIE LLOYD AND HILARY BROWN

12. Immorality, illegality and pathology: the sex and gender knots

WILLIAM WALLACE

13. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away: recognising and reformulating gender in CAT

BETHAN DAVIES

14. Why hate matters: An introduction to Rene Girard's theories of mimesis and the scapegoat mechanism and their relevance to CAT theory and practice

MATTHEW TINKER

15. Owning privilege and acknowledging racism

HILARY BROWN

16. How to relate: The Italian dilemma -- trust and cooperation make the world go around, but do we trust and can we cooperate?

CRISTINA FIORINA AND MARISA POGGIOLI

17. A social justice framework for training in cognitive analytic therapy: inequalities, power and politics in psychotherapy

ANN BENSON

APPENDIX 1: psycho-social checklist

INDEX