Basic elements in the brief therapies.

"With the economics of therapy tilting toward briefer therapy, those long-term patients become even more valuable."

Milton Erickson was a master of brief therapy, using clinical hypnosis as his primary tool.

Also, in successful cases of brief therapy, the working alliance has been found to follow a high-low-high pattern over the course of the therapy.

The new one is that you get a brief therapy that helps you get over what you're struggling with at the moment.

Attracted but also frightened by her sexuality, a teenage girl undergoes a brief therapy with a warm, humorous and competent psychotherapist.

In psychotherapy, only "brief therapy" (2 to 12 sessions) is considered good therapy.

Recently, other innovators have developed the still briefer, highly interactive short-term psychodynamic therapies.

The treatment approach used in both conditions was the brief problem-orientated therapy described in Chapter 5.

"But very often a brief therapy clears it up quickly."