The Dilemmas of Brief PsychotherapyHealth care reform has made short-term psychotherapy an increasingly popular treatment option. This informative volume explores the potential of brief psychotherapy through four paradigmatic modes of the individual's relationship to others: subservience, indecisiveness, entitlement, and fundamental fault - the latter of which deals with long-term, family-related emotional problems. The Dilemmas of Brief Psychotherapy uses cognitive, behavioral, psychodynamic, psychoanalytic, and systems approaches to show clinical psychology practitioners and students how to decipher and respond to the narratives of patients' lives. James Gustafson's highly readable treatise arms the modern practitioner with solutions to the myriad of problematic situations encountered throughout the course of a brief psychotherapy. |
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... come into her full own being , with its hazards . If I were a romantic , I would welcome this full being , but I am not , and I know that she needs the vitality that comes from entering the mythical plane in shadow , yet she needs to ...
... come into her full own being , with its hazards . If I were a romantic , I would welcome this full being , but I am not , and I know that she needs the vitality that comes from entering the mythical plane in shadow , yet she needs to ...
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... come in pairs when it comes to plots or plights . If a mechanic reverses a bad direction , the new direction has a slope with its own dangers . The new hazard may be more or less manageable , but a competent mechanic will estimate it ...
... come in pairs when it comes to plots or plights . If a mechanic reverses a bad direction , the new direction has a slope with its own dangers . The new hazard may be more or less manageable , but a competent mechanic will estimate it ...
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... comes along later . She decided that she wanted to be in the middle of the buying , and so desisted . To my great relief , she figured several sessions later that she was in less danger moving into a place in the city , and taking a job ...
... comes along later . She decided that she wanted to be in the middle of the buying , and so desisted . To my great relief , she figured several sessions later that she was in less danger moving into a place in the city , and taking a job ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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