Very Brief PsychotherapyRoutledge, 11. 1. 2013 - 228 strán (strany) As the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology are increasingly driven by the economics of the HMO or Mental Health Center, practitioners in any setting, whether it be private practice or university clinic, are now forced to develop more concrete procedures and models in order to practice more efficiently. This book presents a set of procedures for brief therapy that are based entirely on the four common dynamics of psychiatry. By following the model set forth in this book, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, psychiatric nurses, and mental health workers will be able to build an entire brief therapy program based upon the initial conditions for each patient. In Very Brief Psychotherapy, Dr. James Gustafson provides the reader with the tools and techniques to make a discernable difference in a patient's life in only a few moments. The majority of people seeking help from mental health professionals are not pathological, but are most often stuck in self-imposed cyclical patterns of behavior from which they cannot escape. It is the first step in any situation that leads to the iteration of the familiar circle, and it is in this single step that the clinician can effect decisive change. Given a window of only five or ten minutes, the practitioner armed with this approach can help a patient break out of the repeating pattern, move around the impasse, and take the first step onto a new trajectory. Very Brief Psychotherapy can help the practitioner make meaningful interventions in real world time, and in less than ideal circumstances, will radically change the reader's concepts of what can be accomplished in a day, in a clinical hour, or even in a single moment. |
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... called “moral masochism” (Brenman, 1952). The masochism, or arranged suffering, is moral rather than sexual, and its shadow side is moral sadism which terrifies the patient more than the moral masochism. Thus, the patient circulates ...
... called “sensitive dependence on initial conditions.” Two steps which look about the same, but are slightly different, end up in completely different places when repeated a million times. This is the meaning of Frost's (1916/1969) poem ...
... called “selective inattention” (Sullivan, 1956; Gustafson, 1986/1997a, chap. 6). Thus, we back things up by returning to the point at which the patient was relatively fine, and then see what he did to bring these things to this pass. It ...
... called single-session psychotherapy, because the patient, perhaps, with help, has already done the work of preparation (see, particularly, the Case of the Beautiful Wife in chapter 10 of this book, and the follow-up remarks by the ...
... called it the “Law of Increased Disturbance,” which he rightly said is a fundamental law of psychotherapeutic forecasting: “In intensive psychotherapy, a therapist always runs the risk of making a patient as disturbed as she (or he) has ...
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The Compensations for Unbearable Anxiety and Depression | |
Schooling against False Claims | |
Walking Forward to Read the Exchanges in Work and Love | |
The Opposing Current to Pushing | |
The Opposing Current to Guilt | |
The Work Impasse | |
Background | |
Drawings and Letters | |
A Theoretical Note on the Scaffolding of This Book | |
References | |
Index | |