This bestselling book has helped thousands of people find ways of dealing with everyday emotional difficulties, and also supported practitioners and trainee psychotherapists in their work with patients. This fifth edition features up-to- date thinking and practice from Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy and includes new content on: * Trauma and Complex Trauma * Mindfulness * Relational mapping * Group Work. Further updates include a new foreword, updated references, and new chapter summaries and conclusions.