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Later life can be a time when coping strategies are challenged by losses and transitions that can resonate with earlier experiences of trauma, distress, and vulnerability. Using case vignettes this chapter illustrates the reparative possibilities of cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), both within the therapy room and beyond, when attending to the legacy of complex trauma in later life and the re-emergence of early trauma when caring for a relative with dementia. By offering a lifespan model of socially and culturally mediated development, CAT views a person as a ‘work in progress’, a culmination of experiences and relationships that have resulted in the person in the here and now, with the hopeful possibility that, regardless of age, change is possible. |
