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| The Practice of Brief Therapy: An Introduction | |
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| The Historical Context | |
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| Defining Brief Therapy: How Long Is "Short," and to Whom? | |
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| The Effectiveness of Brief Therapy--by Design and by Default | |
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| Attitudinal and Systems Limitation Factors in Brief Therapy | |
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| Technical Treatment Issues in Brief Therapy | |
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| Patient Selection for Brief Therapy | |
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| Initiating Brief Therapy | |
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| The Issue of Focus in Brief Psychotherapy | |
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| An I-D-E Checklist | |
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| Maximizing Therapeutic Leverage during Initial Contacts | |
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| Common Foci in Brief Therapy and Some Basic Assumptions | |
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| The Five Most Common Foci | |
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| The Process of Finding a Focus | |
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| Brief Intervention: Some Assumptions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Losses | |
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| Interpersonal Losses | |
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| Existential Losses | |
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| The Brief Therapy of Interpersonal and Existential Losses | |
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| Therapist Pitfalls in the Brief Treatment of Losses | |
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| Developmental Dysynchrony | |
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| Perspectives on the Course of Emotional Development | |
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| Points of Vulnerability to Developmental Dysynchrony | |
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| The Brief Therapy of Developmental Dysynchrony | |
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| Therapist Pitfalls in Dealing with Developmental Dysynchrony | |
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| Marital and Family Conflicts: Early Treatment Issues and Assessment | |
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| The Long Tradition of Brief Marital and Family Therapy | |
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| Values of the Brief Therapist Treating Marital and Family Problems | |
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| Initiating Brief Marital and Family Therapy | |
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| Marital and Family Assessment | |
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| The Brief Therapy of Marital and Family Conflicts | |
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| Brief Therapy of Extramarital Affairs | |
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| Stage Theory and Marital/Family Dissolution | |
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| Symptomatic Presentations: the Uses of Clinical Hypnosis | |
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| A History of Clinical Hypnosis | |
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| Controversies in Hypnosis | |
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| Preparing a Patient for Hypnosis | |
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| Hypnotic Induction | |
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| Specific Problem Areas | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Treating Personality Disorders | |
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| The Nature of Personality Disorders | |
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| Classification of Personality Disorders | |
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| Psychotherapy with Personality-Disordered Patients | |
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| A Theoretical Model for Intervention with Personality-Disordered Patients | |
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| Treatment of Specific Character Clusters | |
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| Interminable Brief Therapy for Severe Borderline Character Disorders | |
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| Concluding Comments | |
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| Time-Limited Group Psychotherapy | |
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| Length of Treatment in Short-Term Group Psychotherapy | |
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| Central Aspects of Short-Term Group Therapy | |
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| Phases of Short-Term Group Psychotherapy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Time and Termination | |
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| The Use of Time in Brief Psychotherapy | |
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| The Issue of Termination | |
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| Case Examples | |
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| A Case Transcript | |
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| David: Session 1 | |
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| David: Session 2 | |
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| David: Session 3 | |
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| David: Session 4 | |
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| David and Lisa: Session 5 | |
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| David and Lisa: Session 6 | |
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| David and Lisa: Session 7 | |
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| References | |
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| Subject Index | |