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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... situation of first interviews , in which the patient hopes to get somewhere and the doctor to make an adequate appraisal of what it would take to get there . The first problem is how to ride the hope , which is refreshing . Too often it ...
... situation of first interviews , in which the patient hopes to get somewhere and the doctor to make an adequate appraisal of what it would take to get there . The first problem is how to ride the hope , which is refreshing . Too often it ...
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... situation , usually called by the word termination , which is grim by its association with dying and euphemistic by its association with terminals . The first problem is to conclude a difficult episode with a patient by getting him or ...
... situation , usually called by the word termination , which is grim by its association with dying and euphemistic by its association with terminals . The first problem is to conclude a difficult episode with a patient by getting him or ...
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... situation itself . ( I am indebted to Professor of Classics at the University of Wiscon- sin , Denis Feeney , for his reading of the original Greek . ) In any event , after his series of trials Odysseus arrives in Ithaka to take back ...
... situation itself . ( I am indebted to Professor of Classics at the University of Wiscon- sin , Denis Feeney , for his reading of the original Greek . ) In any event , after his series of trials Odysseus arrives in Ithaka to take back ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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