Cognitive Therapy in Action - Softcover

Ivy-Marie Blackburn and Vivien Twaddle are eminent members of the Cognitive Therapy Centre in Newcastle.

Cognitive therapy is now established as a key method of helping people to overcome even long-standing states of depression, anxiety and other emotional conditions. Many books are available on the theory behind the treatment, but this informative work, emanating from the influential Cognitive Therapy Centre in Newcastle, is the first collection of case studies to be published outside the United States. Including an introduction to the development and application of cognitive therapy, the book compares it with other psychotherapies and discusses its scope and validity through reference to experimental studies, before going on to show how it works in the therapist's consulting room. The cases covered range from depressions, general anxiety disorder and panic disorder to obsessive-compulsive disorder, bulimia and long-term problems. In each case details are given of the process of therapy and the outcome results. For clinical psychologists, students of psychology, social workers, nurses and psychiatrists, and those with a general interest in the subject, this book will prove invaluable as a practical illustrations of how cognitive therapy works.