Brief Versus Long Psychotherapy

When, Why and How

By: James Paul Gustafson

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Hardcover | 7 July 1977

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How can a patient best be helped? What treatment is most effective for which problem? When is brief therapy sufficient? When is long-term work necessary? Dr. James Gustafson, who has spent over twenty-five years treating people using different modalities - brief, long-term, family, and group approaches - answers these questions in this unique contribution.
Brief Versus Long Psychotherapy first covers the common ground of all psychotherapies: interpersonal problems. Dr. Gustafson shows readers how to distinguish between what he terms benign problems, which improve through the therapist's stance of understanding, and malignant ones, which initially respond with the patient becoming increasingly agitated and demanding. Dr. Gustafson demonstrates how to understand the patient's dynamics and what criteria to use to decide on treatment modality. 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.
Rather than promising miracle cures in unrealistically few sessions, Dr. Gustafson accepts the tremendous challenge of improving people's lives. In this volume he helps therapists clearly assess the problems people bring to them in order to provide them with the best possible treatment - and therefore the most efficient one.

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Preface
Introduction
Selection and the Most Common and the Most Impossible Interpersonal Situations	p. 1
The Malignant Basic Fault	p. 7
The Benign Basic Fault	p. 25
Malignant Couples	p. 37
Benign Couples	p. 49
Malignant Families	p. 67
Benign Families, Growing Up in America, and Brief Psychotherapy in Mental Health Centers	p. 85
Exits from the Dynamics of the Patient: Long, Brief, and Never	p. 107
Long Psychotherapy	p. 111
Brief Psychotherapy: The Case of the Missing Lion	p. 121
Thirty-Year Psychotherapy	p. 163
Necessary Suffering	p. 179
Visual Maps	p. 195
Official Documents and Generative Letters	p. 215
A Liberal Education in Psychotherapy	p. 231
Training I	p. 241
Training II and III	p. 265
Tolstoy's Fate	p. 285
The Science of Long-Term Psychotherapy	p. 305
Jung's Individuation, Compared to Freud	p. 315
The Group Animal	p. 335
References	p. 355
Credits	p. 375
Index	p. 377
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