Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder : The Model and the Method
2: John Wiley & Sons, 1997. 1st Edition. Soft Cover. Text in English. 187 pp. Minor wear to the covers.
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 of patients.
While CAT shares some ideas and methods with other approaches, it introduces many new features and is uniquely integrated at both the theoretical and practical level The early joint reformulation of patients' problems serves to contain destructiveness and to create a working alliance. Also, the use of reformulation to teach self-reflection and avoid collusive responses from the therapist, throughout the therapy represents a powerful new technique. The book offers a critical appraisal of current ideas and practices, contrasting with these the ways in which CAT mobilizes the patient's own resources. The authors argue that CAT should have a place in any service seeking to help these difficult patients. Near Fine. Item #3713
ISBN: 9780471976189
Price: $30.00