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This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on: • Trauma and Complex Trauma • Mindfulness • Relational mapping • Group Work. Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.
Examining the Impact of Our Beginnings
Examining the Impact of Our Beginnings
In this section we look through our notebook of patterns of thinking and responding and seek to find out more about where we are rooted. Focus on what feels right for you. Push where it moves!
Some memories will feel painful. It’s the pain you have tried to manage all your life. Whether you are reading this section in co-counselling, or you are on your own, call on your courageous self to help you, and take breaks with mindful breathing. Use the diagram in Figure 1.3 (p. 21) to keep yourself in the ‘window of tolerance’ by monitoring your body responses to what you are exploring.
Understanding where our conflicts are rooted helps us to ...
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