Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life

<p><em>Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life </em>highlights that any attempt to work psychotherapeutically with older people must take into account the effects of working within a context of institutional ageism. It explores the specialist skills required when working with older people covering:<br><br>* the delayed effects of early trauma<br>* narcissism and the re-emergence of borderline traits and dissociative states<br>* the emergence of treatment resistant depression and anxiety<br>* the use of the cognitive analytic therapy model to challenge the child centred paradigm of psychoanalytic theory.<br><br>Clinical psychologists psychiatrists psychotherapists nurses social workers and occupational therapists alike will find this an illuminating and thought provoking book.</p>