Change for the Better: Self-Help through Practical Psychotherapy

by Elizabeth Wilde McCormick

Change for the Better is for anyone interested in making lasting changes in both their inner and outer lives. It uses a conversational style to help readers identify their own learned patterns of thinking and relating that underlie and contribute to emotional suffering such depression, anxiety, phobia, eating disorders, relationship and psychosomatic problems. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick shows readers how to reflect upon their difficulties, identify problems in relating, and stop and revise attitudes that are out of date. Mindfulness- based experiential exercises are incorporated throughout to help nourish self awareness and change.

Genres: Self Help, Nonfiction, Psychology

344 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 1990

Reviews

[Amanda Copeland · Rating 5 out of 5]

The 'bible' of Cognitive Analytic Therapy. A useful self help book that provides patients and quite a few therapists with an introduction to the basic principles of Cognitive Analytic Therapy in a readable and logically presented format.

Change for the Better is for everyone who has ever wanted to change, but has found that anything beyond superficial change is difficult. We may continue to feel stuck, helpless, and angry as old ways of thinking reassert themselves.

Presenting an easy-to-follow programme, this book helps to develop insights into the old patterns that govern our choices. It shows how to identify unhelpful patterns of behaviour and how to go about changing them in a realistic way.

Highly recommended ++++++

[Emma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Much more than a self help book.