The Dilemmas of Brief PsychotherapyPlenum Press, 1995 - 240 pages Health 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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... madness . A patient dreamt very precisely of this security , in his case with his mother , as two beautiful teeth connected by a thin silver wire . When he lost her , the connection was severed , and he went promptly into a manic ...
... madness . A patient dreamt very precisely of this security , in his case with his mother , as two beautiful teeth connected by a thin silver wire . When he lost her , the connection was severed , and he went promptly into a manic ...
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... madness . Death may seem extreme , but actually it is not unusual . Usually , the death of the female is more gradual , as she is attended by physicians who keep her going . For instance , the very first case in a recent review of a ...
... madness . Death may seem extreme , but actually it is not unusual . Usually , the death of the female is more gradual , as she is attended by physicians who keep her going . For instance , the very first case in a recent review of a ...
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... madness , and who do not die in Egypt like Shakespeare's Antony of romantic foolishness , evolve only if they retain the humility to be wrong . If they lack humility , they come to a stop , and return to being pinned either to the horn ...
... madness , and who do not die in Egypt like Shakespeare's Antony of romantic foolishness , evolve only if they retain the humility to be wrong . If they lack humility , they come to a stop , and return to being pinned either to the horn ...
Contents
Selective Inattention | 1 |
BEGINNING MIDDLE AND ENDING DILEMMAS | 7 |
What Is the Gap in the Story | 13 |
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