Anthony Ryle obituary

Psychotherapist who developed cognitive analytic therapy as an alternative approach to complex mental health disordersIn recent years the National Health Service has made much greater use of talking therapies for people with mental health problems. However, first-line approaches to more complex disorders, based crudely around diagnostic labels, are frequently ineffective. An alternative approach to such disorders is cognitive analytic therapy (CAT), developed by Anthony Ryle, who has died aged 8