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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... look fifteen . Was there some way to be thirty - five ? I had been seeing her about once a month , in the long brief ... Look , you didn't look closely at your husband ; in your innocence you thought him young like you , and actually he ...
... look fifteen . Was there some way to be thirty - five ? I had been seeing her about once a month , in the long brief ... Look , you didn't look closely at your husband ; in your innocence you thought him young like you , and actually he ...
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... look for . A case may look simple , but the system may be extremely tricky , as Selvini - Palazzoli ( 1978 ) wrote : How many times we found ourselves literally routed by , for example , the family of a modest postal clerk , his wife an ...
... look for . A case may look simple , but the system may be extremely tricky , as Selvini - Palazzoli ( 1978 ) wrote : How many times we found ourselves literally routed by , for example , the family of a modest postal clerk , his wife an ...
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... look at the two kinds of dreams that I distinguish in practice : punch dreams , which pack a simple punch from the ... looks outward rather than inward , with an eye attuned to the nature of the relevant structures of society . First of ...
... look at the two kinds of dreams that I distinguish in practice : punch dreams , which pack a simple punch from the ... looks outward rather than inward , with an eye attuned to the nature of the relevant structures of society . First of ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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