Description
Table of Contents 1. Introduction Core concepts; stories from the therapy room 2. How to Have a Therapeutic Relationship Talking and listening; within us and between us 3. Mapping, Writing, Other Methods of Relating Mapping to hold and shape the therapy 4. Setting the Scene Considerations for the therapist and client 5. Beginning to Work Together Beginning therapeutic narrative; arriving at a focus 6. Establishing and maintaining a reformulation Holding, shaping, monitoring; evaluating 7. What to do in the middle of therapy Time, tasks, relationships; common problems 8. Ending Managing the end of the relationship therapeutically 9. Therapeutic versatility CAT as a framework for EMDR, Compassion-focused therapy, behavioural therapy, Gestalt therapy, groupwork, art therapy, authenticity 10. The therapeutic dance list: Tools for self-supervision and development Relational competences and dimensions of relating
STEVE POTTER is a psychotherapist who is teaches and supervises Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and its application to reflective practice in the UK and internationally. His central interest is in the co-creative process of relational mapping, and how it allows us to see and say things that otherwise might be too complex to hold in mind. He is co-editor of the International Journal of Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Relational Mental Health.