| Description |
xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Brief/strategic approaches to therapy : an overview -- What is it that happens between the ears? -- The reality of "Reality" (or the "Reality" of reality): "What is really happening?" -- How do we understand emotions? -- Negotiating the problem -- Neutrality and power, suggestions, tasks, and persuasion -- Less of the same -- Exceptions, solutions, and the future focus -- Framing interventions : altering how the problem is viewed -- Pattern intervention : altering the doing of the problem -- The use of analogy -- Paradoxical interventions -- Overresponsibility and underresponsibility : opposite sides of the coin |
| Summary |
After giving a history of brief therapy and describing the basic philosophical assumptions, the authors concentrate on ways of intervening that are common to all brief therapists, including framing, pattern, paradoxical, metamorphical, hypnotic and family interventions |
| Analysis |
Psychotherapy |
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Psychotherapy |
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Brief psychotherapy - Handbooks, manuals, etc |
| Notes |
"A Norton professional book." |
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Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 185-194 |
| Subject |
Brief psychotherapy -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Brief psychotherapy.
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Psychotherapy, Brief -- methods.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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| Author |
O'Hanlon, Bill, 1952-
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| LC no. |
92048864 |
| ISBN |
0393701433 |
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