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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... kind of delusional alternative , a refuge in madness . A patient dreamt very precisely of this security , in his case with his mother , as two beautiful teeth connected by a thin silver wire . When he lost her , the connection was ...
... kind of delusional alternative , a refuge in madness . A patient dreamt very precisely of this security , in his case with his mother , as two beautiful teeth connected by a thin silver wire . When he lost her , the connection was ...
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... kind of comfort . Problem Saturation A third kind of elaborate delay , besides psychosis and the behavioral rituals , is the practice of problem saturation ( White , 1989 ) . It overlaps with the behavioral rituals because so many of ...
... kind of comfort . Problem Saturation A third kind of elaborate delay , besides psychosis and the behavioral rituals , is the practice of problem saturation ( White , 1989 ) . It overlaps with the behavioral rituals because so many of ...
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... kind of thing . And then finally , he was ready to electrocute her , and Peter asked if he could help . And the man rubs his head , and that kind of thing , and then the phone rang . And it was Sally's Mom , who said Sally doesn't need ...
... kind of thing . And then finally , he was ready to electrocute her , and Peter asked if he could help . And the man rubs his head , and that kind of thing , and then the phone rang . And it was Sally's Mom , who said Sally doesn't need ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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