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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... inner world ? How could we so acutely focus on the interpersonal world without losing focus on both the inner world of dreams and the outer world of systemic hierarchies ? It appeared that focal brief psychotherapy was operating with ...
... inner world ? How could we so acutely focus on the interpersonal world without losing focus on both the inner world of dreams and the outer world of systemic hierarchies ? It appeared that focal brief psychotherapy was operating with ...
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... inner surfaces of dream to our outer insertion in the social world , and back again , we usually have great holes in our knowledge of this diurnal circuit . These gaps are the cause of dangerous oversights . We begin from the inner ...
... inner surfaces of dream to our outer insertion in the social world , and back again , we usually have great holes in our knowledge of this diurnal circuit . These gaps are the cause of dangerous oversights . We begin from the inner ...
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... inner orbit and the outer orbit to become disconnected . The patient lives around either the inner or the outer as a kind of strange attractor . Thus , a patient may be diffident in her work , fearing to claim anything , while she is a ...
... inner orbit and the outer orbit to become disconnected . The patient lives around either the inner or the outer as a kind of strange attractor . Thus , a patient may be diffident in her work , fearing to claim anything , while she is a ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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