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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... father . Her distress was evident . The resident linked the patient's distress to the patient's own child- hood . She felt burdened as a teenager by her own mother's confiding distress , and wanted to go to her father for refuge . Her ...
... father . Her distress was evident . The resident linked the patient's distress to the patient's own child- hood . She felt burdened as a teenager by her own mother's confiding distress , and wanted to go to her father for refuge . Her ...
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... father if she cannot locate a father - protector . You just don't ever get over a vulnerability like hers . Rather than have her resort to a delusional protector , I will stay around as a defender of her voice . She has got a pretty ...
... father if she cannot locate a father - protector . You just don't ever get over a vulnerability like hers . Rather than have her resort to a delusional protector , I will stay around as a defender of her voice . She has got a pretty ...
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... father had no interest for his pursuits but only wanted him to toe the line , which he didn't , and thus he got put ... father . His dilemma was that he had to hold onto this glory , like Cyrano or the Little Prince , or his light would ...
... father had no interest for his pursuits but only wanted him to toe the line , which he didn't , and thus he got put ... father . His dilemma was that he had to hold onto this glory , like Cyrano or the Little Prince , or his light would ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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