Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life: A New Perspective on Old Age

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Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life explores the specialist skills required when working with older people.

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List of figures, boxes and tables	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Abbreviations	p. xiv
Introduction	p. xv
Ageing, ageism and CAT: the theoretical and psychological context of psychotherapy with older people	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
The development of the dialogic self in CAT: a fresh perspective on ageing	p. 6
Ageism in therapy and beyond	p. 45
Why do so few become elders?	p. 67
Individual CAT with older people: clinical examples	p. 84
The developmental conditions of later life from a CAT perspective	p. 99
Introduction	p. 101
King Lear: the mirror cracked	p. 109
The case of Michael (therapist Madeleine Loates)	p. 133
A coming together of CBT and CAT: sequential diagrammatic reformulation of the long-term effects of complex and distant trauma	p. 146
Borderline traits and dissociated states in later life	p. 177
Cultures of care in severe depression and dementia	p. 201
Afterword	p. 221
Index	p. 222
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