Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health provides an overview of the development of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), and illuminates how the political context affects the way in which therapists consider their work and facilitates their practice.
This book examines how CAT contributes to wider debates over ‘the politics of mental health’. With contributions from those working in services – including adult mental health, learning disabilities and child and adolescent therapists – the writers consider how contemporary politics devolves responsibility for mental illness onto those suffering distress. The evolving political and social attitudes clients bring to therapy are also addressed in several chapters, and there is a focus on groups in society who have been marginalized and neglected in mental and physical health services.
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health offers a fresh understanding of the contemporary politics of mental health that will be of interest to all therapists and mental health professionals.
Edited by:
Julie Lloyd,
Rachel Pollard
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9781138305144
ISBN 10: 1138305146
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 01 November 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Table of Contents Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Acknowledgements Richard Handley's story Forward 1. Introduction: cognitive analytic therapy and the politics of mental health JULIE LLOYD AND RACHEL POLLARD 2. Reciprocal roles in an unequal world HILARY BROWN 3. Putting the social into psychotherapy: implications for CAT TERESA HAGAN, NICOLA ARMSTRONG AND JAN BOSTOCK. 4. The de-radicalisation of CAT: a regressive interaction of economics, theory and practice? RACHEL POLLARD 5. The madness of money: the super-rich, economic inequality and mental health LAWRENCE WELCH 6. The intergenerational transmission of the adverse effects of inequality JOSEPHINE F. DISCEPOLO AHMADI 7. Using CAT to bridge the gap: attending to the ultimate and the intimate EMILY HANDLEY, BETH GREENHILL AND KIERON BEARD 8. From deviance and sin to unmet needs: a CAT conceptualisation of challenging behaviour JO VARELA 9. Responding not reacting to challenging behaviour: a reformulation approach JO VARELA AND LIANNE FRANKS 10. Transforming care in England for people who have intellectual disabilities and forensic formulations PHILIP CLAYTON 11. Unequal ground: working with people affected by child sexual abuse JULIE LLOYD AND HILARY BROWN 12. Immorality, illegality and pathology: the sex and gender knots WILLIAM WALLACE 13. Ignoring it doesn't make it go away: recognising and reformulating gender in CAT BETHAN DAVIES 14. Why hate matters: An introduction to René Girard’s theories of mimesis and the scapegoat mechanism and their relevance to CAT theory and practice MATTHEW TINKER 15. Owning privilege and acknowledging racism HILARY BROWN 16. How to relate: The Italian dilemma -- trust and cooperation make the world go around, but do we trust and can we cooperate? CRISTINA FIORINA AND MARISA POGGIOLI 17. A social justice framework for training in cognitive analytic therapy: inequalities, power and politics in psychotherapy ANN BENSON APPENDIX 1: psycho-social checklist INDEX
Julie Lloyd is a clinical psychologist and cognitive analytic therapist and co-editor of Cognitive Analytic Therapy for People with Intellectual Disabilities and their Carers (2014). Rachel Pollard is a cognitive analytic psychotherapist and the author of Dialogue and Desire: Mikhail Bakhtin and the Linguistic Turn in Psychotherapy (2008).
Reviews for Cognitive Analytic Therapy and the Politics of Mental Health
'This is a challenging book which should not be ignored. Its authors attempt to ensure that Cognitive Analytic Therapy stays true to its principles of inclusivity and equality and of seeing a person within their social as well as their emotional reality. They also combine to utter a clarion call to society in general, as it struggles with the consequences of neoliberal ideology. They reject complacency and blind acceptance of the status quo and face, head-on, important issues and prejudices which we, and by implication, all practitioners of psychotherapy, too readily avoid.' Annalee Curran, UKCP registered CAT therapist, supervisor and trainer. Founder Member and first Chairperson of ACAT and now a Life Member.
