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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... resident has found out , to what the patient , or the person who sent the patient , was looking for from us ! The Case of a Woman Looking for a Doctor to Give Her Lithium A middle - aged mother of three had begun by telling the resident ...
... resident has found out , to what the patient , or the person who sent the patient , was looking for from us ! The Case of a Woman Looking for a Doctor to Give Her Lithium A middle - aged mother of three had begun by telling the resident ...
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... resident was tactful , and the patient settled in . We learned little more , because the resident was pinned down by his own politeness . He was half right , for without this concession , the patient would break off in a second . The ...
... resident was tactful , and the patient settled in . We learned little more , because the resident was pinned down by his own politeness . He was half right , for without this concession , the patient would break off in a second . The ...
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... residents for two years , the resident becoming the patient's savior from his family of successful and cold techno- crats . I heard about the case from supervising the resident . He came into psychotherapy after losing a beautiful ...
... residents for two years , the resident becoming the patient's savior from his family of successful and cold techno- crats . I heard about the case from supervising the resident . He came into psychotherapy after losing a beautiful ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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