Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy - Hardcover

Wilde McCormick, Elizabeth

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45 ratings by Goodreads

9781446208144: Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1446208141 ISBN 13: 9781446208144

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012

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Change for the Better is for anyone interested in making lasting changes in both their inner and outer lives. It uses a conversational style to help readers identify their own learned patterns of thinking and relating that underlie and contribute to emotional suffering such depression, anxiety, phobia, eating disorders, relationship and psychosomatic problems. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness- based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change.

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About the Author:

Elizabeth Wilde McCormick has been in practice as a psychotherapist for over thirty years in both private and NHS settings. She is also a teacher, trainer and writer. Her background is in social psychiatry, humanistic and transpersonal psychology and cognitive analytic therapy. She has had an interest for many years in the interface between psychotherapy and mindfulness and in the process of change. She is a founder member of The Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the author of a number of books including Living On The Edge, Surviving Breakdown, The Pale Green Room and Your Heart and You.

Review:

′An unusual self- help book with real depth′ -
Sue Gerhardt, author of Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby′s Brain

′This is a good book made better. It retains the clear writing and useful exercises of earlier editions but manages to invite an even more comprehensive exploration of the self′ -
Dr Anthony Ryle, pioneer of CAT at Guy′s and St Thomas′ hospitals

′This is a really welcome guide to modern therapy - blending traditional psychological wisdom with a practical cognitive programme that anyone can follow′ -
Philip Hodson, psychotherapist and broadcaster

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