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Table of Contents
1 Cover
4 Preface to the Second Edition
5 Preface to the Second Edition
7 The Structure of the Book Further Information
8 1 The Scope and Focus of CAT Summary CAT Is an Integrated Model CAT Is a Collaborative Therapy CAT Is Research Based CAT Evolved from the Needs of Working in the Public Sector and Remains Ideally Suited To It CAT Is Time‐Limited CAT Offers a General Theory, Not Just a New Package of Techniques CAT Has Applications In Many Clinical and Other Settings
9 2 The Main Features of CAT Summary Background The Early Development of CAT Practice The Theoretical Model The Development of a Vygotskian and Bakhtinian Object Relations Theory The Development of the Basic Model of Practice The Development of Sequential Diagrammatic Reformulation (“Mapping”) The Course of Therapy Time Limits and Ending The Clinical Aims of CAT
10 3 The CAT Model of Development of the Self Summary The CAT Concept of Self Neuroscience Research and the Self The Permeability of the Self Cultural Relativity of Models of Self Studies of Infant Development The Contribution of Vygotsky's Ideas Developmental Studies of Role Acquisition Bakhtinian Contributions Contrasts with Other Concepts of Self Genetics and Temperament Our Evolutionary Past The Evolution of Cognitive Capacities and of Culture Evolutionarily Pre‐Programmed Psychological Tendencies
11 4 The CAT Model of Abnormal Development of the Self and Its Implications for Psychotherapy Summary Abnormal Development of Self and Its Consequences Common Therapeutic Factors Damaged or Abnormal Development of the Self and the CAT Model of Therapeutic Change Understandings of “Transference” and “Counter‐Transference” and Avoiding Collusion Use of Personal and Elicited Counter‐transference Identifying and Reciprocating Counter‐transference Self‐Esteem The “False Self” Who Does the Therapist Speak for? Implications of Our Evolutionary Past for Psychotherapy Concluding Remarks
12 5 The Practice of CAT Summary Referral Assessment Information The Conduct of the Assessment Interview Other Considerations Assessing Motivation Combining CAT with Other Treatment Modes Assessing the Risk of Self‐Harm and Suicide Assessing the Potential for Violence “Paper and Pencil” Devices and Questionnaires Treatment “Contracts” Concluding Remarks
