In this useful and timely book, Gustafson shows how the therapist can borrow from the entire tradition of psychotherapy for productive short-term treatment.

In this useful and time book, Gustafson shows how the therapist can borrow from the entire tradition of psychotherapy for productive short-term treatment.

This book presents a set of procedures for brief therapy that are based entirely on the four common dynamics of psychiatry.

The author examines how patients keep themselves distressed in brief psychotherapy, and asserts that an adequate map for a given patient must determine what is overlooked in the outer world (selective inattention) and inner world ...

Here, the author gives concrete examples of his use of field theory to understand and consider with the patient his or her difficulties in social, psychological, and biological contexts.