Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is a fast-growing therapy remarkable not only for its integrative approach and power but also for its applicability in the context of brief therapy. Since Anthony Ryle developed the concepts of CAT in the early 1980s there has been an enormous demand for training in [...]
This work introduces the origins, development, and practice of cognitive-analytic therapy (CAT). It offers a guide to the potential application and experience of CAT with a wide range of difficult clients and disorders and in a variety of hospital, community care, and private practice settings.[...]
Borderline Personality Disorder patients are impulsive, unstable and destructive, hurting themselves and those around them, including those who seek to help them. This has resulted in a widespread reluctance to treat them and a pessimism about treatment. In the experience of the authors this pessimi[...]