Brief Psychotherapy Books
Brief Therapy with Couples: An Integrative Approach
Therapists and counsellors in training and practice will find in this book a new, accessible and powerful approach to short-term therapy with couples. Much problem behaviour in relationships can be... (more)
Existential time-limited therapy: The wheel of existence
Existential ideas are worked into a structured, time-limited modular approach. The book presents an overview of principal existential ideas, and then applies them to the model, using case vignettes... (more)
Narrative Means to Therapeutic Ends
This book presents a respectful, often playful approach to serious problems, with ground-breaking theory as a backdrop. The authors start with the assumption that people experience problems when the... (more)
A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy
With brief therapy finally getting deserved interest, the time is ripe for an overview. For this book, Cade and O'Hanlon state that they "decided to collaborate on a book that would summarize the... (more)
Personality Styles and Brief Psychotherapy
Written for therapists working with people in distress, this book describes the links between crisis and personality style, and offers a plan for approaching cases with these connections in mind. The... (more)
Brief Counselling: A Practical Integrative Approach: Second Edition
Almost two thirds of counsellors and psychotherapists work with clients in up to twenty sessions each: this book reflects that reality and the challenges involved. The bestselling first edition of... (more)
Treating the Neurotic Patient in Brief Psychotherapy
A description of the clinical concepts and techniques of 'Brief Psychotherapy', utilising specific clinical material, and focusing on avoiding distraction and regressing to unproductive pre-oedipal... (more)
The Situation is Hopeless, but not Serious: The Pursuit of Unhappiness
This is a tongue-in-cheek look at the ways in which we turn ourselves into our own worst enemies. Using metaphors, vignettes, jokes, innuendoes and other "right-hemispheric" language games, Dr.... (more)
The Language of Change: Elements of Therapeutic Communication
In this book, Paul Watzlawick undertakes to teach the language of the right hemisphere of the brain. Only by communicating in the bizarre language of the unconscious can the door be opened to genuine... (more)
Time-Conscious Psychological Therapy: A Life Stage to go Through
Places the client at the centre of the therapeutic process, showing how the life-pattern and client's needs structure the duration and focus of the therapeutic relationship. The text includes insert... (more)
Brief Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
This textbook is part of a series which provides both professional counsellors and psychology students with guidelines on the use of brief therapy. This is a process which involves a limited number... (more)
Brief Therapy Approaches to Treating Anxiety and Depression
Maintaining that most cases of anxiety and depression will respond to intelligently planned brief, directive therapies, Dr. Yapko has assembled this collection of 17 insightful and challenging papers... (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 Conversations: Exploring Efficient Intervention in Psychotherapy
Brief Therapy Conversations features stimulating discussions between two international experts about essential topics, including the importance of the therapeutic relationship, the role of diagnosis,... (more)
Single-Session Integrated CBT: Distinctive features
In this book, Windy Dryden takes long-standing research on SSI therapy and transfers it to the field of CBT in a timely and conceptual application.
This thoroughly updated new edition offers... (more)
Single Session Thinking and Practice in Global, Cultural, and Familial Contexts: Expanding Applications
Single Session Thinking and Practice teaches readers how to implement single session approaches by encouraging practitioners and clients to collaborate in making the most of every encounter. Single... (more)
The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice: Stretching the World for New Opportunities and Progress
The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by 'stretching the world' of their clients.
The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which... (more)
More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy
Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and... (more)
Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care
Using Guided Imagery and Hypnosis in Brief Therapy and Palliative Care presents a model for effective single-session therapy.
Chapters include more than a dozen case studies with transcripts and... (more)
Advanced Brief Strategic Therapy for Young People with Anorexia Nervosa
This important new book details a strategic and systemic model for short-term therapy with adolescent sufferers of anorexia nervosa, a psychopathology that seduces patients into starvation as doctors... (more)
Solution Focused Thinking in Schools
This book provides simple methods and ideas for finding solutions to problems in a school context, such as classroom disruption or helping a child begin to read after years of failing to progress.... (more)
Brief Therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress: Disorder: Traumatic Incident Reduction and Related Techniques
Research has demonstrated that brief therapy for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) tends to be more successful than long-term work. Traumatic Incident Reduction is a relatively new and exciting... (more)
Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy
Join de Shazer behind the on-way mirror for a fascinating journey into the land of brief therapy, where the emphasis is not on how problems arise, but on how to solve them. His case examples read... (more)