FOREWORDS by Professor Andrew Samuels and Professor Stephen Palmer Introduction to the second edition - Del Loewenthal and Gillian Proctor Introduction to the first edition: an exploration of the criticisms of CBT - Del Loewenthal and Richard House POLITICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 1 - CBT's integration into societal networks of power - Michael Guilfoyle. Chapter 2 - CBT: the obscuring of power in the name of science - Gillian Proctor. Chapter 3 - Happiness: CBT and the Layard thesis - David Pilgrim. Chapter 4 - L'Anti-Livre Noir de la Psychoanalyse: CBT from a French/Lacanian perspective - Robert Snell. Chapter 5 - CBT is the method: the object is to change heart and soul - Paul Kelly and Paul Moloney. Chapter 6 - The social construction of CBT - Jay Watts. PARADIGMATIC PERSPECTIVES Chapter 7 - Behaviour therapy and the ideology of modernity - Robert L Woolfolk and Frank C Richardson. Chapter 8 - CBT in historico-cultural perspectives - David Brazier. Chapter 9 - Cognitive behaviour therapy and evidence-based practice - John Lees. Chapter 10 - Cognitive therapy, Cartesianism, and the moral order - Patrick Bracken and Philip Thomas. CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 11 - Psychoanalysis and cognitive behavior therapy: rival paradigms or common ground? - Jane Milton. Chapter 12 - Person-centred therapy, a cognitive behavior therapy - Keith Tudor. Chapter 13 - Cognitive behavior therapy: From rationalism to constructivism? - David A Winter. Chapter 14 - Post-existentialism as a reaction to CBT? - Del Loewenthal. Chapter 15 - Considering the dialogic potentials of cognitive therapy - Tom Strong, Mishka Lysack, Olga Sutherland and Konstantinos Chondros. EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES Chapter 16 - Thinking thoughtfully about cognitive behavior therapy - John D Kaye. Chapter 17 - CBT and empirically validated therapies: infiltrating codes of ethics - Christy Bryceland and Henderikus Stam. Chapter 18 - Empirically supported/validated treatments as modernist ideology, part I: dodo, manualisation and the paradigm question - Arthur C Bohart and Richard House. Chapter 19 - Empirically supported/validated treatments as modernist ideology, part II: alternative perspectives on research and practice - Richard House and Arthur C Bohart. Chapter 20 - Where is the magic in cognitive therapy? A philo/psychological investigation - Fred Newman. CBT PERSPECTIVES AND RESPONSES Chapter 21 - What is CBT really and how can we enhance the impact of effective psychotherapies such as CBT? - Warren Mansell. Chapter 22 - The case for CBT: a practical perspective from the NHS front line - Isabel Clarke. Chapter 23 - A response to the chapters in Why Not CBT? - Adrian Hemmings. CONCLUSION TO THE FIRST EDITION - Contesting therapy paradigms about what it means to be human - Del Loewenthal and Richard House. CONCLUSION TO THE SECOND EDITION - No single therapy should be the only game in town - Del Loewenthal and Gillian Proctor. Contributors, Indexes