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Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Anthony Ryle
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Description for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder
Paperback. Borderline personality disorder patients are impulsive, unstable and destructive, hurting themselves and those around them, including those who seek to help them. The use of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) to treat patients with borderline personality disorder is a fairly recent (and successful) approach. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMR; MJN; MMH; MMJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
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 pessimism is unjustified, because for many patients a relatively brief intervention can be effective in cost-benefit terms as well as human terms. The interventions illustrated here have been used to treat outpatients for 15 years. The results indicate that treatments can achieve clinically significant changes in the course of 16 24 sessions, in a substantial proportion ... Read more
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 pessimism is unjustified, because for many patients a relatively brief intervention can be effective in cost-benefit terms as well as human terms. The interventions illustrated here have been used to treat outpatients for 15 years. The results indicate that treatments can achieve clinically significant changes in the course of 16 24 sessions, in a substantial proportion ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780471976189
SKU
V9780471976189
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99-50
About Anthony Ryle
Anthony Ryle was the creator of cognitive analytic therapy - CAT -, a model of psychotherapy that has been taken up around the world. His interest in mental health grew from his spending 15 years as an inner city GP; he gradually developed the model during the 1970s and 80s, first as director of the student health service at Sussex ... Read more
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