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• Seeing the unseen’. Supporting organisational and team working at YMCA Liverpool with multiple complex clients. The use of Cognitive Analytic concepts to enhance service delivery
• ‘The Sense of an Ending’ – Death and Endings in CAT
• From face to face to online: thoughts on the experience of a rapid change of practice
• “Resilience in the face of change” – 23rd National ACAT Conference, the benefits of working with over 65s – our reflections on why the evidence base is so limited
• “Never-ending hurt”: How CAT can help inform the management of chronic pain
• A dialogue: in response to moving on from face to face to online therapy
• COVID Reformulation Postcards Laura Turner
• CAT and the “Incredible Years” programme: Towards a CAT parenting guidance framework
• COVID Reformulation Postcards Katie Redman
• Developing a CAT understanding of Anti-Social Personality Disorder (ASPD)
• Eight Session Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) service – description of a model and method
• Embodiment as a creative resource in working with split and “borderline” clients
• Our relationship with our bodies: Reflections from bariatric surgery and the wider cultural context
• The experience of staff practising “Five Session CAT” consultancy for the first time: Preliminary findings.
• From Relational Mapping to Being Relational
• “IAPTrogenic effect?”: CAT theory as a tool to consider potential systemic patterns of iatrogenic harm within the context of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) Services
• A case study of cognitive analytic therapy with a client diagnosed with psychotic depression
• An Alternative Psychotherapy File
• Austerity, Power and CAT’s Opportunity for Change
• Clinical Outcomes Of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Delivered By Trainees
• Italian chronicles of the Covid-19 pandemic Lived reflections on our unequal world and our precariousness in the face of Anthony Ryle’s egalitarian values
• Naming the Reciprocal Roles of Britain’s Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
• Concepts of the Self, Social Inequality, Culture and Power in reflecting on therapeutic work with Asylum Seekers and Refugees: A Cognitive Analytic Approach
• How CAT-Informed Practice Can Help To Improve Mental Health Services
• On Learning From Our Patients: Reformulating CAT Training
• Perfectly Imperfect: Reflections of a Newly Qualified Clinical Psychologist in using CAT to Explore the Relational Contribution to Binge Eating
• The Clinician’s Guide To Forensic Music Therapy - Book Review
• Using The Parent-Adult-Child Model Alongside CAT
• When Therapy Feels Like A Roller Coaster Ride: A CAT Perspective
• Where Should We Keep Reformulation Letters?
• Fond Memories Of Someone We Were Lucky To Have Met
• Memories from a pre-CAT Time
• Pragmatism: from Psychoanalysis to CAT
• Reciprocal roles: the mother of all ideas
• Remembering Tony Ryle: Roots, re-formative experiences and a relational tale
• The Genius of Tony Ryle – Past, Present and Future
• Tony Ryle the therapist: A privilege to listen in
• Tony Ryle: A personal appreciation and obituary (Reprint)
• Tony Ryle’s appetite for Debate, and how it led to New Developments in the Co-creation of Reformulation Letters: Empowering to empowered?
• A Case Example of CAT with a Person who Experiences Symptoms of Psychosis
• Are we afraid to break tradition? Cognitive Analytic Therapy’s (CAT’s) contribution to the treatment of sexual risk
• Capturing Service Users’ Views of Their Experiences of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT): A Pilot Evaluation of a Questionnaire
• CAT Reflective Practice Groups
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health 2018
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health 2018 (1)
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Distinctive Features (2018)
• Entering the Antisocial Arena: A Cognitive Analytic Kaleidoscope
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Distinctive Features (2018) (1)
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 51)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 51)
• Meet a Trustee Robert Watson, Vice-Chair of ACAT
• Psychosexual Assessment, Intervention and Cognitive Analytic Therapy Treatment
• The Jigsaw aka The Battle of Humpty 2018
• Using the Parent-Adult-Child Model Alongside CAT (Full version)
• Wounded Healer
• A Hopeful Sequential Diagrammatic Reformulation – Four Years On
• Goodbye Letters
• Learning With Young People About Being “In The Middle”
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 46)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 46)
• Meeting with Older People as CAT Practitioners: Attending to Neglect
• Negotiator’s Mind
• The 4P’s model: A Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) derived tool to assist individuals and staff groups in their everyday clinical practice with people with complex presentations
• Update on ACAT’s Collaboration with Doctorate Courses in Clinical Psychology
• “Playing” with CAT - Using a CAT Informed Approach with Young Children and their Families
• ACAT Conference 2016: “Resilience in the Face of Change” Reflections on our experience organising the conference at the University of Exeter
• Book Review: Forced Endings in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
• Brexit means Brexit: the narcissism in an idea
• CPD Trauma and Transference
• Developing a Mobile Application to Support Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Incorporating Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) into Cognitive Analytic Therapy - Reaching Reciprocal Roles that other therapies cannot reach
• It’s All About Relationships
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 47)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 47)
• Obituary: Zoonia Nazir
• Reflections on the Relational Skills in CAT Supervision Residential Training
• Tony Ryle: A Personal Appreciation and Obituary
• Use of Cognitive Analytic Concepts; A relational framework for Organisational service delivery and working with clients with Multiple Complex Needs (MCN) at the Liverpool YMCA
• “Resilience in the Face of Change”
• 16+1 Interview with Deirdre Haslam
• Book Reviews
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• Collaborating with Management in the NHS in difficult times
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• Is Transsexualism an latrogenic construction?
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 44)
• Letter To Reformulation
• Relational patterns amongst staff in an NHS Community Team
• Talking myself into and out of Asperger's Syndrome: Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) to rethink normal
• The Gender Dilemma...
• **Reformulation Explores A Brief Explanation of Six-Part Story Making
• A CAT Informed Approach to a Time-Limited (Closed) Group within an Adolescent Inpatient Setting
• Audit of Factors Predicting Drop Out from Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• CAT and Obesity: My Reflections
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy in an Open Dialogic Group - Adaptations and Advantages
• Iñigo Tolosa- Obituary
• Invitation to Write for Reformulation
• Letter from the Chair
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 45)
• My Experience of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) within a Secure Forensic Setting
• Politics and ACAT
• Reaching Out – A Journey Within and Alongside CAT
• A first experience of using Cognitive Analytic Therapy with a person with a learning disability
• Applying CAT in an Acquired Brain Injury Neuropsychology service: Challenges and Reflections
• Beyond individual therapy - Trainee practitioner reflections on the use of CAT within an Adult Community Learning Disabilities Team
• BOOK REVIEW: Cognitive Analytic Therapy for people with intellectual disabilities and their carers
• Bringing sexuality into dialogue using a CAT approach to the sexual rights and sexual relationships of people with Intellectual Difficulties
• CAT and the Mind-Body Conundrum of Chronic Pain
• Editorial (1)
• Formulation during the Child Assessment Process
• Inaugural meeting of the UK - Palestine Mental Health Network
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 42)
• Report from the Third CAT and LD Conference, in London
• The 16 + 1 interview
• When the therapist is disabled
• A Dog in the World of ACAT
• A New Concept of Understanding CAT and Hermeneutics
• Bringing Bodies Into Dialogue
• CAT and CFT - Complementary in the treatment of shame?
• Dear Homeland: CAT At The Edinburgh Festival
• Editorial (2)
• Helping service users understand and manage the risk: Are we part of the problem?
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 43)
• Politics, Reciprocal Roles and Dialogue
• Words and Rituals: The significance of 'smaller' endings
• A Tribute to Angela Wilton
• Diagrammatic Psychotherapy File
• Editorial (3)
• In Praise of Practitioner Training
• Long-distance Supervision and the Melbourne Project
• Reflections on the Publication of "Introduction to CAT theory and practice"
• The Internalisation of the Perpetrator
• To Boldy Go... A View of CAT After 15 Years
• A CAT Approach to Gaia and The Psyche
• A Personal Study of Core Pain
• ACAT News
• Book Review - INTRODUCING COGNITIVE ANALYTIC THERAPY PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE: Anthony Ryle and Ian B Kerr
• Brilliant or Doomed: Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Relational Intelligence in Higher Education
• CAT and Cognition. A Personal View and Conference Report
• Developing New Systems for ACAT Administration and Communication
• Differences Between Borderline and Narcissistic Personality Disorders
• Editorial (4)
• In Celebration of Integration and Diversity. CAT in the West Country and Beyond
• Letters to the Editors
• Recommended Reading
• The Neurotic Neighbourhood
• Time Limited Therapy: A Necessary Evil in the Managed Care Era?
• Update on The Melbourne Project - Prevention and Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder
• A CAT Psychotherapist in Upper West Ghana
• A Reformulation of ACAT Code of Ethics and Practice and Equal Opportunities Policy?
• Aims and Scope of Reformulation (4)
• "Talking about CAT"
• "We need decent people as well as decent laws"
• BOOK REVIEW
• Clarifying an ethical dilemma with CAT in work with children and adolescents
• Editorial (5)
• Integrating Art Psychotherapy and Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 40)
• Reformulating Futh, the 'hero' of the 'The lighthouse' by Alison Moore
• So how truly collaborative are we?
• The 16 + 1 interview (1)
• The Awkward Silence - Ethics of Withholding Information
• The ethical implications of social class in the practice of CAT
• Three linked things: Bodies
• When the obvious solution may not be as simple as it seems
• ACAT Membership and auditing ACAT CPD
• Adaptions of a CAT skills course
• Aims and Scope of Reformulation
• CAT as a bridge between confusion and psychoanalytic thought
• CAT as a model for development of leadership skills
• CAT in dialogue with Mindfulness: Thoughts on a theoretical and clinical integration
• Change your Parenting for the Better - exploring CAT as a parenting intervention
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) and (Open) Groups with Adolescents within an Inpatient Psychiatric Setting: Initial Thoughts and Experiences
• Darren Deene - The Naughtiest Boy in School
• Disappointingly Different? Perhaps not...
• Editorial (6)
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 41)
• Letter to the Editors
• Problem solving in an empathic task: an experimental study of expertise and intuition
• Reflecting on my first placement - A CAT understanding to illustrate learning
• Some reflections on the Malaga International CAT Conference "Mental health in a changing world"
• The 16 + 1 interview (2)
• 'Five Session CAT' Consultancy: Using CAT to Guide Care Planning with People Diagnosed within Community Mental Health Teams: Brief Summary Report
• A Hopeful Sequential Diagrammatic Reformulation
• Aims and Scope of Reformulation (1)
• CAT with People who Hear Distressing Voices
• Great Time: From Blade Runner to Bakhtin
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 38)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 38)
• Reflections on a Dilemma in a Supervision group: Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place
• Sleep Tight: Working Creatively with Dreams in CAT
• The 16 + 1 interview (3)
• Using a Cognitive Analytic Therapy approach in working with Eating Disorders: Reflections on Practice
• What is the 2005 Mental Capacity Act and how can CAT help us to make sense of the decision making process at its heart?
• A letter to the NHS...
• Aims and Scope of Reformulation (2)
• Anonymous Letters
• Book Review: Post Existentialism and the Psychological Therapies: Towards a therapy without foundations
• CAT in the NHS: Changes as a result of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 and the future of CAT
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy & Dysphagia: using CAT relational mapping when teams can't swallow our recommendations
• Concerning the Future of CAT and Other Relational Therapies
• Editorial (7)
• Exploring whether the 6 Part Story Method is a valuable tool to identify victims of bullying in people with Down's Syndrome
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 39)
• Past Hurts and Therapeutic Talent
• Reciprocal roles within the NHS
• Relationships in Microcosm in Cognitive Analytic Therapy: Based on a workshop given at the 2012 ACAT Conference in Manchester
• The 16 + 1 interview (4)
• A Brief Introductory Handout About CAT
• CAT and its Relationships to Non-CAT - Preliminary Thoughts About Annalee's Diagram
• So What's Wrong With CAT?
• Towards a Greater Acceptance of the Cognitive in CAT
• Words as Interpsychological Mediators of Psychotherapuetic Discourse
• 25th Annual ACAT Conference 2019: Integrating Trauma Developments into CAT
• Giving Voice to Therapeutic Writing
• How to be Both - Being in Dialogue with Ali Smith
• ICATA View From The Floor
• In Praise and Celebration of IRRAPT
• Incorporating mentalizing skills into Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)
• Innovations in Writing
• Re-visiting Experiences of Working with Intergenerational Trauma in Cambodia through a CAT Lens
• Relational peer groups and the strength of the working alliance in Inter Regional Advanced Psychotherapy Training [IRRAPT] Programme: a qualitative study
• The House of Self States [HOSS]: Using a creative integrative and containing mapping technique across the therapies
• Effectiveness of Group Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) for Severe Mental Illness
• Follow Up in CAT
• Paper 1. ‘Infamy, Infamy, they’ve all got it in for me.’ 1 Exits in Organisationally Informed CAT Supervision
• Paper 2. Applying the Ideas into Practice: Narrative CAT Exits in Organisational Supervision
• Play & Creativity in Psychotherapy. (Eds) Marks-Tarlow, T., Solomon,M., Seigel D. W.W Norton
• Poetry and Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Reflecting on working with palliative cancer patients through a CAT ‘lens’ with a focus on reciprocal roles
• Split-Egg Fantasies: Incorporating Fantasy into a Developmental Model of CAT
• The Cheshire CAT: Reflections on ‘Rabbit Holes’
• The Idealised Care Smokescreen: How the Tools we Share can be Used to Attack
• Trauma, Trauma and More Trauma: CAT and Trauma in Learning Disability
• Words for Feelings
• Meditation on the Phenomena of Anxiety in CAT Clinical Training
• Modern Fairy Tales: Of Vampires and Batmen
• Aim and Scope of Reformulation
• An audit of Goodbye Letters written by clients in Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Book Review: Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Revolutions in Subjectivity
• Book Review: The Mindfulness Manifesto
• CAT, Metaphor and Pictures: An exploration of the views of CAT therapists into the use of metaphor and pictorial metaphor
• Dear Reformulation
• Flowers by the Window: Imagining Moments in a Culturally and Politically Reflective CAT
• Is CAT in danger of being squeezed out of the NHS?
• Is three a crowd or not? Working with Interpreters in CAT
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 36)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 36)
• Memoirs, Myths and Movies: Using Books & Film in Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• On TP and TPP Rating Sheets
• Six-Part Storymaking: a tool for CAT practitioners
• Some Subjective Ideas on the Nature of Object
• The Effectiveness of Standard Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) with people with mild and moderate acquired brain injury (ABI): an outcome evaluation.
• The Problem of Relating TPs and TPPs
• The Reformulation '16 plus one' Interview
• Using a template to draw diagrams in Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• Tony Ryle Briefly Interviewed by Mark Dunn
• What are the most dominant Reciprocal Roles in our society?
• Validating Conceptual Aspects of the Reformulation Process in CAT
• Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse : A Discussion of Definitions, Prevalence, Incidence and Theory as it applies to CAT Practice
• CAT and Eating Disorders
• Supervision: Integrating Self and Skill
• A map for a road often travelled in CAT
• Blunt Thoughts about Sharpening the File
• CAT For The Elderly
• The Special Needs Project (CAT For Borderline Patients)
• A Study of Birth Stories and Their Relevance for CAT
• The Impact of Different Views of God in Therapy: Healing or Perpetuating the Split in the Split Egg
• The Therapeutic Relationship and Therapy Outcome
• The Use of Transference in CAT: Refinement of a Proposed Model
• Aims and Scope of Reformulation (3)
• Black and White Thinking: Using CAT to think about Race in the Therapeutic Space
• Book Review: "Why love matters - How affection shapes the baby's brain" by Sue Gerhardt
• CAT, Metaphor and Pictures
• Comment on James Turner's article on Verbal and Pictorial Metaphor in CAT
• Compassion in CAT
• Equality, Inequality and Reciprocal Roles
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 37)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 37)
• Supervision Requirements across the Organisation
• The Chicken and the Egg
• The Launch of a new Special Interest Group
• The PSQ Italian Standardisation
• The Reformulation '16 plus one' Interview (1)
• Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy for Medically Unexplained Symptoms - some theory and initial outcomes
• What are the important ingredients of a CAT goodbye letter?
• Whose Reformulation is it Anyway?
• Working within the Zone of Proximal Development: Reflections of a developing CAT practitioner in learning disabilities
• "They have behaviour, we have relationships?"
• Australia and New Zealand Unites Again; This Time to Consolidate the Promotion & Practice of CAT in the Region
• Book Review: Self-Harm Assessment in Young People - A Therapeutic Assessment manual By Dennis Ougrin, Tobias Zundel and Audrey V. Ng Published by Hodder Arnold, 2010
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Role of Brief Assessment and Contextual Reformulation: The Jigsaw Puzzle of Offending
• Confidentiality and Good Record Keeping in CAT Therapy - A Discussion Paper
• International CAT News
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 34)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 34)
• Reflections on ACAT Relational Skills in CAT Supervision Course - December 2009
• The Development of a 12-Session CAT Therapy for Use in a Workplace Setting
• The Development of a Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Relational Framework for Bipolar Disorder (BD)
• The Political Sources of Reciprocal Role Procedures
• Therapeutic Change that is Dialogically Structured, Mediated by Signs, and Enabled by a Relationship – A Case Example
• Thoughts and Experiences of the Application of Cognitive Analytic Therapy to Clinical Work with Adolescents
• What Happens After 'Happy Ever After'?
• Will ACAT Join Other Professional Bodies in Calling for an End to the Detention of Families with Children?
• Words With Arrows The Benefits of Mapping Whilst Talking
• Can the Concept of Competencies Help Us to be Competent?
• Do We Allow CAT To Have A Heart - And If We Do, Does This Make It Soft And Wet?
• CAT and Narcissism: The Missing Chapter
• Do we allow CAT to have a heart? Is it soft and wet? A Response.
• Early Signs of Dialogical Sequences in CAT
• Narcissism destructive and disowned: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
• Narcissism: From Kohut to CAT
• Reading Scott Fitzgerald: Literature and the psychology of narcissism
• The Essence of Effective Psychotherapy: Reflections of a CAT Therapist learning Solution Focussed Brief Therapy
• Beyond State Shifts - Metashifts
• Outcome of Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• A Little Bit Of Bakhtin - From Inside To Outside And Back Again
• A Suggested New Diagrammatic Formulation for Narcissists
• Accessible Snags
• Aim and Scope of Reformulation (1)
• 'When I'm The Dark Angel I Feel Worthless And Don't Deserve Love'
• Creatively Adapting CAT: Two Case Studies from a Community Learning Disability Team
• Financial Practicalities
• How Can Cognitive Analytic Therapy Contribute To The Understanding And Treatment Of 'Sex Addiction'?
• International CAT
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 35)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 35)
• Letter to the Editors (1)
• Mirror Workshop Summary Held On The 9th July 2010
• Reaching In – The Value of CAT Skills Training in Non-Statutory Community Services
• Playfulness in CAT
• Violence against women – a role for CAT
• Situating Social Inequality And Collective Action In Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• The 'Piacentino' Context In Which We Work As Aspiring CAT Practitioners In Italy
• Tyler's Story. Cognitive Analytic Informed Therapy within a Secure Care Setting
• The Reformulation '16 Plus One' Interview (2)
• The West Midlands CAT Practitioners Course 2009-2011
• A Little Italian Story - Service Development
• Aims and Exits from Self-Defeating Procedures
• Book Review of: Beatrice Beebe and Frank Lachmann (2002). Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-constructing Interactions. Published London: Analytic Press.
• Book Review of: How Infants Know Minds. Reddy, V. (2008). Harvard University Press.
• CAT and People with Learning Disability: Using CAT with a 17 Year Old Girl with Learning Disability
• CAT Effectiveness: A Summary
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 32)
• Meeting with Older People as CAT Practitioners: Attending to Neglect (1)
• Obtaining Consent to Publish “ Further Thoughts"
• Reflections on Our Experience of Running a Brief 10-Week Cognitive Analytic Therapy Group
• State Regulation of Psychotherapy: Protecting the Public or 'Professionalising' Psychotherapy at the Expense of Therapeutic Integrity, Creativity and Diversity?
• The CAT Articles Review
• Thoughts on the Rebel Role: Its Application to Challenging Behaviour in Learning Disability Services
• Update on Statutory Regulation
• What’s in a name? The power of power, narrative, and naming things that are so numerous we no longer see them
• Therapeutic Creativity and the Therapist’s Zone of Proximal Development
• Obituary for William David “Bill” Bell Thoughts on his passing Jurai Darongkamas for MCAT
• Val Crowley Three reflections from the CAT learning disability special interest group Phil Clayton, Julie Lloyd, Nicola Murphy
• Val Crowley by her friends in the CAT Midlands Psychotherapists Group Phil Clayton, Eva Burns-Lundgren, Sally-Anne Ennis, Tina Griffiths, Anna Jellema, Jan Mead and Graham Twist
• A Pre-CAT Issue: The Influence of Partner Safety on the Assessment of Men Who Batter
• Curiosity and CAT
• Working With Sex Offenders When You Think Like a CAT Person
• Reciprocal Roles: Caught in the Crossfire
• SDR's for Beginners
• Sequential Diagrams, Reflections and Suggested Revisions
• A Personal View of ACAT
• An Update on Microsupervision
• A Brief Survey of Perceptions of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Within Local Mental Health Systems
• A Call For Papers On The 3rd International ACAT Conference
• A Qualitative Study of Cognitive Analytic Therapy as Experienced by Clients with Learning Disabilities
• Chair's Letter, October 2009
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy, or Can You Make a Mad Man Sane?
• Darwin and Psychotherapy
• Dialogue and Desire: Michael Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy by Rachel Pollard
• International ACAT Conference "What Constitutes a CAT Group Experience?"
• IRRAPT 2007-9 Research Projects
• K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple. Stupid) - Reflections on Using CAT with Adolescents and a Couple of Case Examples
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 33)
• Letter to the Editors (2)
• Measurements of change and their relationship to each other in the course of a CAT therapy
• Receiving a CAT Reformulation Letter: What Makes a Good Experience?
• Research Into the Use of CAT Rating Sheets
• The Big Debate - Health Professions Council
• Threats to Clinical Psychology from the CBT Stranglehold
• Using what we know: Cognitive Analytic Therapy's Contribution to Risk Assessment and Management
• When Happy is not the Only Feeling: Implications for Accessing Psychological Therapy
• CAT Used Therapeutically and Contextually
• Catch up with CAT
• Clinical Implications for the Pregnant CAT Therapist
• Consent to Publish in Reformulation
• Cuckoo Lane
• How to Enjoy Writing a Prose Reformulation
• Integration of Cognitive Analytic Therapy Understandings
• Is CAT an Island or Solar System?
• Letter from the Chair of ACAT (Issue 30)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 30)
• Metaprocedures in Normal Development and in Therapy
• Plugging in and Letting Go: the Use of Art in CAT
• Service Innovation
• The 'Human Givens' Fast Trauma and Phobia Cure
• The Body in Dialogue
• The Development of the Sequential Diagrammatic Reformulation
• The States Description Procedure: Some Clinical Implications for the CAT Self-States Sequential Diagram (SSSD)
• Silence in Practice
• 'My Life in Pictures' OCD and CAT
• CAT and the Media
• Draft States of Mind Inventory
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 31)
• Looking at a Therapeutic Relationship In CAT
• Measuring Outcomes in CAT
• Relationships and CAT
• Statutory Regulation Update
• The CAT Articles Review (1)
• Book Review: Just War. Psychology and Terrorism
• Case Study on Z not as Impossible as we had Thought
• Generating Practice-Based Evidence for CAT
• Keeping cat alive
• Reformulating the NHS reforms
• The Application of CAT to Working with People with Learning Disabilities
• The Inner Voice Check
• Using CAT in an assertive outreach team: a reflection on current issues
• You're driving me insane: Literature, Lyrics and Drama through CAT eyes for clients and students
• CAT in Later Life: Becoming a Historian of the Self
• Opinion and Debate : Boundaries
• Working with Victims of Racism
• CAT and Learning Disability
• CAT in Australia
• CAT in Scotland: SCOTCAT
• How should we respond to Therapists offering CAT without valid training or qualifications?
• Race and CAT
• Re-introducing CAT to Student Counselling
• Research into Supervision
• Response to the Research Committee's Position Paper
• The Experience Of The Psychiatric Interview Following Self-Harm
• Zen, Cinderella and the Art of CAT
• CAT Chat : Videos on CAT Practice and Theory : Dialogue between Tony Ryle and Mark Dunn
• CAT in One Session
• A Sign for the Therapeutic Relationship
• Cuckoo Lane (1)
• Evidence submitted by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (NICE 92)
• In the Beginning was the Conversation 'Process' Spirituality and CAT
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 29)
• States Characterisation Procedure (SCP) for supporting the reformulation of patients with borderline/dissociative features
• Using Cognitive Analytic Therapy with parents: some theory and a case report
• Book Review: An Intimate History of Humanity
• CAT in the North-East of England
• CAT Skills Training in Mental Health Settings
• CAT with Teenagers and Teenagers Leaving Care
• Change of State: Learning How To Manage Unmanageable Feelings and States
• CPD Events
• CPD in the South West
• Family Constellations and CAT: Reciprocal Roles Through The Generations?
• Impressions of Finland
• Cognitive Analytic Therapy in People with Learning Disabilities: an Investigation into the Common Reciprocal Roles Found Within this Client Group
• Developing a Language for the Psychotherapy of Later Life (The witness and the judge, Cognitive Analytic Therapy in later life: the case of Maureen.)
• Letter from the Chair (15)
• Letter from the Editors (Issue 27)
• Private Misery, Public Rage and Poor Soundproofing - Seeking Happiness in the NHS
• Musings on Doing CAT with Couples
• Reflections on the Second International CAT Conference Maynooth, Ireland 15 - 17 June 2006
• A credit-card sized SDR and its use with a patient with limited language skills.
• Updating the Psycho-Social Checklist
• A New Database for ACAT
• 'Don't Dis' Me!' using CAT with Young People who have Physical and Learning Disabilities
• CAT, Attachment Theory and Cognitivism
• Prevention and Early Intervention for Borderline Personality Disorder in Young People
• Article Review - Subjective Consciousness Explained
• CAT, the Therapeutic Relationship and Working with People with Learning Disability
• Journal Reviews Update Spring 2005
• Letter from the New Editors
• Update from Council
• Workshop Presentation Synopses from the 2005 ACAT Annual Conference
• A Dialogue About the Dialogical Approach
• ACAT Chair's AGM Report
• An Animal Living in a World of Symbols
• Attachment, The Body and Trauma
• Book Reviews (1)
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