Brief Psychotherapy Books
Mastering Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: A Roadmap to the Unconscious
Over two decades, on two continents, Josette ten Have-de Labije and Robert J. Neborsky have struggled to define and perfect the therapeutic methods of Habib Davanloo. Between the two of them, they... (more)
Single-Session Therapy (SST): 100 Key Points and Techniques
Even in one session a therapist can make a difference. Single Session Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques presents the 100 main features of this way of working, providing an accessible, succinct... (more)
Time-limited psychotherapy in practice
This title uses vivid clinical descriptions of time-limited psychotherapy treatments and up-to-date research findings; describes what the treatments entail; discusses their outcome; and deals with... (more)
Short-term Therapy for Long-term Change
In this time of rapidly changing expectations of psychological treatment, the authors address the following questions: Is it possible to effect deep, lasting, meaningful psychological change in a... (more)
Brief Gestalt Therapy
Brief Gestalt Therapy demonstrates how the Gestalt approach can be used effectively in brief interventions with clients. Gestalt's distinctively integrative nature and emphasis on a highly... (more)
Short-Term Play Therapy for Children: Third Edition
Illustrated with rich case examples, this widely used practitioner resource and text presents a range of play approaches that facilitate healing in a shorter time frame. Leading play therapists from... (more)
Time-Limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents: An Interactive Approach
At a time when there is increasing concern about the escalation of child and adolescent mental health problems, Time-limited Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children and Adolescents provides an... (more)
An Integrated Approach to Short-Term Dynamic Interpersonal Psychotherapy: A Clinician's Guide
Short-term dynamic interpersonal psychotherapy is an integrated, trauma-informed, contemporary, dynamic way of working with a range of mental health difficulties. Flexible though structured,... (more)
Beyond Technique in Solution-Focused Therapy: Working with Emotions and the Therapeutic Relationship
Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be no more than the techniques it is famous for - pragmatic, future-oriented questions that encourage clients to reconceptualize their problems and... (more)
Animal-Assisted Brief Therapy: A Solution-Focused Approach: Second Edition
This book provides therapists with concrete examples of how to appropriately implement Animal Assisted Activities/Therapy (AAA/T) to cultivate positive effects in treatment. It explains how this... (more)
Lives Transformed: A Revolutionary Method of Dynamic Psychotherapy
The world has long awaited compelling and unmistakable evidence for the validity of dynamic psychotherapy. A review in the present book shows that such evidence has been accumulating over the past... (more)
Narrative Therapy: Making Meaning, Making Lives
This edited volume introduces students to the history and theory of narrative therapy. Authors Catrina Brown and Tod Augusta-Scott situate this approach to theory and practice within the context of... (more)
Maps of Narrative Practice
Narrative therapy is one of the most commonly practised forms of therapy. In the first major book from this leader in the field, each chapter provides an overview of a main area of narrative therapy... (more)
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy: Theory and Technique
Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term... (more)
Brief Therapy and Eating Disorders: A Practical Guide to Solution Focused Work with Clients
Offering practitioners a guide to clinically sound treatment and drawing from her own clinical experience as founder of the Eating Disorders Recovery Centre, the author demonstrates the benefits of... (more)
Brief Encounters with Couples
Deriving from a conference organised by the Tavistock Marital Studies Institute, the present volume draws the main focus of its inquiry from a few fundamental questions.
In its various brief... (more)
A Psychodynamic Approach to Brief Therapy
Illustrated throughout with clinical vignettes, this book is a comprehensive guide to psychodynamic brief counselling and psychotherapy. It is ideal for those looking for a practical introduction to... (more)
A Question of Time: Essentials of Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy
This book aims to describe and explain the bias against brief psychotherapy, whilst stressing the importance of actively challenging resistance and working through the transference. It also covers... (more)
Brief Therapy for Couples: Helping Partners Help Themselves
New paperback edition. A complete guide to self-regulatory couple therapy, an innovative clinical approach that maximizes the couple's capacity for self-directed change. It presents a flexible... (more)
Doing Therapy Briefly
With lengthy waiting lists, reduced resources and demands for more clearly defined performance outcomes, more and more counsellors, psychotherapists and psychologists are finding themselves under... (more)
Short-Term Object Relations Couples Therapy: The Five-Step Model
Brief therapies have become popular - indeed a necessity - in today's managed care environment. Perhaps because it is one of the more complex psychoanalytical models, object relations theory for... (more)
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Its Effective Use in Agency Settings
This is an essential work for any individuals or agencies seriously committed to integrating solution-focused principles and techniques beyond a superficial level. It demonstrates how... (more)
Solution Oriented Therapy for Chronic and Severe Mental Illness
This book offers a new and hopeful way to think about and intervene with those who have tough psychiatric problems or long histories of treatment. It offers an approach to therapy that emphasises... (more)
Time Limited Therapy in Primary Care: A Person-Centred Dialogue
''This book delineates the foundations and clinical work of person-centred counsellors in a practice setting. Six sessions are the maximum number of sessions typically available to clients in this... (more)
Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and it's Dilemmas
Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer's Porcupines she recounts five true... (more)