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Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT): a therapy in a medium secure hospital for a mentally disordered offender with a personality disorder

Jacqueline Withers (North East London Forensic Personality Disorder Service)

The British Journal of Forensic Practice

ISSN: 1463-6646

Article publication date: 1 November 2008

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Abstract

Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT) has a developing evidence base for working with complex cases including personality disorder. This article describes the use of CAT with a single 25‐year‐old male patient with severe personality difficulties who was residing in a medium secure hospital. It is suggested that, in treatment of severe personality difficulties, rather than aiming at ‘cure’, therapy may have a more modest goal such as movement from personality‐disordered functioning to adequate or optimal personality functioning.

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Withers, J. (2008), "Cognitive analytic therapy (CAT): a therapy in a medium secure hospital for a mentally disordered offender with a personality disorder", The British Journal of Forensic Practice, Vol. 10 No. 3, pp. 24-32. https://doi.org/10.1108/14636646200800017

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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