Anthony Ryle

Borderline personality disorder patients are impulsive, unstable and destructive, hurting themselves and those around them, including those who seek to help them. The use of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) to treat patients with borderline personality disorder is a fairly recent (and successful) approach. Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Borderline Personality Disorder presents the therapeutic approach and describes the developmental and structural...

Introduces the principles and applications of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) is an increasingly popular approach to therapy that is now widely recognised as a genuinely integrative and fundamentally relational model of psychotherapy. This new edition of the definitive text to CAT offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to its origins, development, and practice. It also provides...