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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... society . This is psychic deflation , where the spirit is punctured like an inner tube , and the breath or pneuma leaves . This is bad , but it is even worse to become puffed up in the psychic inflation of Anna's love for Vronsky ...
... society . This is psychic deflation , where the spirit is punctured like an inner tube , and the breath or pneuma leaves . This is bad , but it is even worse to become puffed up in the psychic inflation of Anna's love for Vronsky ...
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... society . Society distracts , it measures easily and rewards early , it rains purposes , it lasts forever , it legislates limits , it spurns inner voices . To live socially is to live an outer voice . ( Adams , 1907/1961 , p . xvii ) ...
... society . Society distracts , it measures easily and rewards early , it rains purposes , it lasts forever , it legislates limits , it spurns inner voices . To live socially is to live an outer voice . ( Adams , 1907/1961 , p . xvii ) ...
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... society . They find that society is also thinly connected ( Gustafson and Cooper , 1990 ) by another set of increase packs , that of socializing . Churches , dinner parties , PTAs , Masons , political causes , softball teams , and the ...
... society . They find that society is also thinly connected ( Gustafson and Cooper , 1990 ) by another set of increase packs , that of socializing . Churches , dinner parties , PTAs , Masons , political causes , softball teams , and the ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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