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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... idea in concluding this introduction , which concerns the readership of this book . I spent the year of 1993–1994 in my Brief Psychotherapy Clinic alternating between consultations with the patients of third- and fourth - year residents ...
... idea in concluding this introduction , which concerns the readership of this book . I spent the year of 1993–1994 in my Brief Psychotherapy Clinic alternating between consultations with the patients of third- and fourth - year residents ...
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... idea , and some develop many ideas , as Dickinson did . Thus , the position is sterile repetition if it contains no other idea than taking the position itself , while it can be fertile when also inspired , like Dickinson , by the ...
... idea , and some develop many ideas , as Dickinson did . Thus , the position is sterile repetition if it contains no other idea than taking the position itself , while it can be fertile when also inspired , like Dickinson , by the ...
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... ideas . One idea fits him into the hierarchy he needs to climb in his specialty : Power in human societies is granted to leaders who promise to maintain the traditional niches or even to expand them . In this endeavor , two strategies ...
... ideas . One idea fits him into the hierarchy he needs to climb in his specialty : Power in human societies is granted to leaders who promise to maintain the traditional niches or even to expand them . In this endeavor , two strategies ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
Perils at the Outset | 19 |
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