Ageing, ageism and CAT: the theoretical and psychological context of psychotherapy with older people -- Introduction / Jason Hepple -- The development of the dialogic self in CAT: a fresh perspective on ageing / Laura Sutton and Mikael Leiman -- Ageism in therapy and beyond / Jason Hepple -- Why do so few become elders? / Mark Dunn -- Individual CAT with older people: clinical examples / Madeleine Loates -- The developmental conditions of later life from a CAT perspective -- Introduction / Jason Hepple (with the Narcissus myth as abridged by Mark Dunn) -- King Lear: the mirror cracked / Sally-Anne Ennis -- The case of Michael (therapist Madeleine Loates) / Madeleine Loates -- A coming together of CBT and CAT: sequential diagrammatic reformulation of the long-term effects of complex and distant trauma / Ian Robbins and Laura Sutton -- Borderline traits and dissociated states in later life / Jason Hepple -- Cultures of care in severe depression and dementia / Laura Sutton
Summary
Cognitive Analytic Therapy and Later Life explores the specialist skills required when working with older people
