The preparations ranged from brief psychotherapy or classes with a nurse two weeks before surgery, to listening to a tape.

Erickson's impact on brief psychotherapy.

A case of hyperactivity resolved by brief psychotherapy.

It is one of the major models of both family and brief psychotherapy.

Empirical research into the efficacy of ISTDP, and other brief psychodynamic psychotherapies is active.

Psychoanalysis and brief psychotherapy.

Still, Dr. Eichler acknowledges that the center has what he calls "an expectation of brief psychotherapy," meaning a few months of treatment at most.

The information gathering aspect of brief psychotherapy is therapeutic because it helps the patient place his or her problem in the proper perspective.

Other types of counseling include group treatment, brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, and family therapy.

Patients in the intensive-psychotherapy group were about 1.5 times more likely to have stable moods during any given month of the study than those who got brief psychotherapy.