Product Description: In "Brief Dynamic Therapy", Dr. Stanley B. Messer demonstrates his approach to short-term, focused therapy. This treatment is distinguished by its emphasis on finding an issue on which to focus in therapy, a characteristic intrinsic to its brevity (therapy generally runs 12-25 sessions)...read more

Product Description: This practical and scholarly text presents a comprehensive review and evaluation of the theory, research, and practice of psychodynamically oriented brief psychotherapy. Offering in-depth discussions of the major clinical and theoretical approaches, chapters explore commonalities and differences in patient selection, theory of personality and psychopathology, theory of change, and techniques of therapy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: A ideal student text and clinical reference, Essential Psychotherapies provides systematic and extensive expositions of the 12 most important forms of psychotherapy being practiced today. Eminent authorities present influential treatments that have been developed relatively recently, such as the brief, cognitive, family, relational, and integrative psychotherapies, as well as more traditional treatments, such as psychoanalytic, existential humanistic, and person-centered psychotherapies; Gestalt, group, and behavior therapy; and Transactional Analysis...read more

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Product Description: This book has a question mark in its title because it aims to invite inquiry. The possibility of integrating psychoanalytic and behavior therapies has been controversial since it was first proposed about 50 years ago, and this has elicited a wide range of reactions from both psychologists and psy­ chiatrists...read more