Table of Contents

About the Author ix Acknowledgements xi Chapter 1 Person-Based Cognitive Therapy (PBCT) for Psychosis 1 Chapter 2 Relationship Building, Therapist Assumptions and Radical Collaboration 20 Chapter 3 Framework for PBCT: The Zone of Proximal Development 37 Chapter 4 Working with Symptomatic Meaning 58 Chapter 5 Relationship to Internal Experience: Mindfulness Practice 78 Chapter 6 Working with Schemata 98 Chapter 7 Self-Acceptance and the Symbolic Self 117 Chapter 8 PBCT Groups: Principles and Practice 138 Chapter 9 Ending and the Process of Change 157 Appendix BAVQ?R 174 References 177 Index 183

About the Author

Professor Paul Chadwick, PhD, is Head of Clinical Psychology at the Royal South Hants Hospital, and Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Southampton. He has an international reputation for his ground-breaking, applied research over the past 20 years on cognitive therapy for psychosis and is lead author on an infl uential book written with M.J. Birchwood and P. Trower ? Cognitive Therapy for Delusions, Voices and Paranoia, also published by John Wiley and Sons.