What is the place of discontent and unhappiness in human experience and how best can we be with it? There is something about everything that makes it not quite satisfactory. Even things we really love are spoilt by not being quite enough or by going on too long. People entering psychotherapy want to feel better - more authoritative, less anxious or depressed, more whole - and although it can help, an enormous amount of difficult and painful emotions continue to arise. Even after years and years of therapy many of us feel that there is no 'happy ever after'. Bearing this reality in mind and drawing upon both psychotherapeutic and Buddhist sources, Present with Suffering, explores bereavement and our pervasive experience of emptiness. With a foreword from Henry Shukman, the authors show how through being mindfully present, kind and accepting, we may enfold what hurts us in a more spacious and meaningful way.

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.

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.

By understanding and listening to your heart you can help prevent the problems which lead to heart disease and failure. This accessible book explores how both physical and emotional issues affect the heart. It provides: information on how to look after your heart and manage its welfare; an overview of the heart and how it works; explanations of problems such as angina, high blood pressure and heart attacks and associated risk factors; information on the vital differences between men and women's heart problems; information on tests and what to expect in hospital; a discussion of the link between your emotions and spiritual wellbeing and the physical reactions of the heart; and practical techniques and coping strategies for reducing stress and strengthening the heart.