Anthony Ryle - Introducing Cognitive Analytic Therapy

Identifiers: LCCN 2019058760 (print) | LCCN 2019058761 (ebook) | ISBN 9780470972434 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119695165 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119695134 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Cognitive therapy.

Classification: LCC RC489.C63 R955 2020 (print) | LCC RC489.C63 (ebook) | DDC 616.89/1425–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019058760LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019058761

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Anthony Rylequalified in medicine in 1949 and worked successively as a founding member of an inner city group practice, in Kentish Town, London, as Director of Sussex University Health Service and as a Consultant Psychotherapist at St. Thomas's Hospital, London. After retiring from the NHS he worked part‐time in teaching and research at Guy's Hospital. While in general practice he carried out epidemiological studies of the patients under his care and the experience of demonstrating the high prevalence and family associations of psychological distress influenced his subsequent interest in the development of forms of psychological treatment which could realistically be provided in the NHS. Studies of the process and outcome of psychotherapy followed, and from these grew the elaboration of an integrated psychotherapy theory and the development of the time‐limited model of treatment which became cognitive analytic therapy. He died in September 2016.

Ian B. Kerrgraduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh. After several junior hospital posts he worked for many years in cancer research. He subsequently completed dual training in psychiatry and psychotherapy at Guy's, Maudsley, St. George's, and Henderson Hospitals in London, and with the British Association of Psychotherapists. He worked for several years as Consultant Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Sheffield, UK, and then in NHS Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK. He has been involved in teaching and researching CAT in many settings in the UK and internationally.

This revised edition is being offered given an evident need to update, expand, and clarify aspects of the first edition which appeared now almost two decades ago, and given a keen wish by Tony Ryle to do this. Our aim was to offer a summary but comprehensive overview of the current evolved Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) model, its background and comparative context, and of its range of applications, that would be informative and helpful to those new to the model, to trainees and even established practitioners. Very sadly however, as many readers will be aware, not long after being commissioned to do this Tony, who was the senior author and progenitor of the cognitive analytic therapy model, developed a serious illness from which he ultimately succumbed in 2016. Summaries of his remarkable creative personality, his career and contributions to the field of psychotherapy and mental health more broadly have been published in various obituaries which are available on the internet and in a special issue published in 2018 of Reformulation the newsmagazine of the Association for Cognitive Analytic Therapy (ACAT) in the UK, also available on‐line.