1st Edition

Focused Psychotherapy A Casebook Of Brief Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout The Life Cycle

By Nick Cummings, Mike Sayama Copyright 1995
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    Focused Psychotherapy Offers practitioners an approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is both financially viable and has sufficient clinical depth to assure genuine psychological growth. Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, this volume enables psychotherapists to quickly hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out therapeutic work.

    Introduction; Part 1 BRIEF, INTERMITTENT PSYCHOTHERAPY THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE; Chapter 1 The Developmental View; Chapter 2 Managed Care and Brief, Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout the Life Cycle; Chapter 3 Psychojudo; Chapter 4 Structuring the Episode; Part 2 ONION AND GARLIC PSYCHODYNAMICS; Chapter 5 Onion/Analyzable; Chapter 6 Garlic/Analyzable; Chapter 7 Schizophrenia; Chapter 8 Schizophrenia: Onion /Nonanalyzable; Chapter 9 Schizophrenia: Garlic /Nonanalyzable; Part 3 Part III SUICIDALITY; Chapter 10 Treating Suicidal Patients; APPENDIX; References; INDEX;

    Biography

    Nick Cummings, Mike Sayama

    "As a psychotherapist, you will refer to this book intermittently through your life cycle, if you want to improve your brief therapy methods." -- Jeffrey K. Zeig, Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation