Change for the better : self-help through practical psychotherapy / Elizabeth Wilde McCormick.

Machine generated contents note: part One Who Are We? What are we made of? What can change? -- 1.Change is possible -- part Two The Building Blocks of Who We Are Feelings, emotions and relationships: with ourselves and others -- 2.Understanding relating: reciprocal relationship procedures -- 3.Problems and dilemmas within relationships -- part Three Getting Off the Symptom Hook Naming the problem -- 4.Traps -- 5.Dilemmas -- 6.Snags and self-sabotage -- part Four The Tip of the Emotional Iceberg Emotional states, depression and symptoms -- 7.Unbearable and unmanageable feelings -- 8.How unmanageable feelings and beliefs become symptoms -- part Five The Emotional Roller-Coaster -- 9.The challenge of shifting states -- 10.Living on the borderline -- part Six Gathering Information -- 11.Examining the impact of our beginnings -- part Seven Making the Change -- 12.Writing our life story -- 13.Targeting the procedures that create problems and deciding on aims for change --

Contents note continued: 14.Putting a diagram in your pocket -- 15.Techniques for working through the process of change -- part Eight Changing within a Relationship -- 16.Love is not enough -- part Nine Holding on to Change -- 17.Creative ways of practising with and holding on to change -- part Ten Resources for Students and Therapists and for Co-counsellors -- 18.The theory and practice of CAT -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 The Psychotherapy File: an aid to understanding ourselves better -- Appendix 2 Mindfulness exercises and meditations -- Appendix 3 List of resources available on the companion website.