In the spirit of his classic text Doing Psychotherapy, this book from master clinician Michael Franz Basch illustrates a powerful new way of conduction brief therapy.Open-ended therapy is no longer an option for most patients, and the therapists must learn to achieve therapeutic goals in much shorter periods. this practical and highly readable book spells out an effective treatment approach designed to work successfully with most patients in fewer than twenty sessions.For his technique, Basch relies on his “developmental model” for psychotherapy, which emphasizes the central role of affect and affective development in treatment. This model builds on the advances made by dynamic psychotherapy, without involving the patient in a lengthy uncovering and reconstruction of childhood trauma. Instead, Basch describes how the therapist can reframe each patient’s dynamics and then use the strengths revealed to offset the patient’s difficulties. This approach allows each patient to confront life’s problems not as a hapless victim of circumstance, past or present, but as a proactive agent for change.To illustrate his new approach, Basch includes several absorbing case examples throughout the book. His straightforward explanation of the principles that govern effective intervention allow the method to be readily adapted by both the beginner and the experienced clinician.
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Michael Franz Basch, M.D., is the Cynthia Oudejans Harris, M.D., Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College in Chicago, the training and supervising psychoanalyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, and is in the private practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Doing Psychotherapy (1980), Understanding Psychotherapy: The Science Behind the Art (1988), and Practicing Psychotherapy: A Casebook (1992).
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The best, most useful primer of brief therapy I have read,
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Though other books (like Vaillant's Changing Character) are more comprehensive, this eminently readable guide to brief therapy is excellent. I find Basch's linking of therapy with developmental levels highly instructive-I now use it with clients. The book is also very readable, with ides that readily lend themselves to rapid diagnosis/assessment and intervention. Well done.
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As I started a Student Mental Health Center rotation, where the model was 12 Individual Psychotherapy sessions, I thought I needed a framework that could guide me to achieve that. This book came in very handy as Basch offers a very clear cut, easy to follow method to evaluate and help the patients. This is a fast read and the information provided is easily usable.
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- Time-Limited Psychotherapy (Commonwealth Fund Publications) by James Mann in Front Matter
- The Manchurian Candidate by Richard Condon on page 139
- The Question of Lay Analysis: (The Standard Edition) by Sigmund Freud on page 119
- Don Pasquale: Score (Ricordi Opera Full Scores) by Gaetano Donizetti on page 109
- Practicing Psychotherapy: A Casebook by Michael Franz Basch on page 9
- When Is Enough Enough: What You Can Do If You Never Feel Satisfied by Laurie Ashner on page 27, and Back Matter
- Brand Manners: How to Create the Self Confident Organization to Live the Brand by Hamish Pringle in Back Matter
- Transference and Projection: Mirrors to the Self (Core Concepts in Therapy) by Jan Grant in Back Matter
- Interventions And Techniques (Core Concepts in Therapy) by Seiser in Back Matter
- Transference And Projection: Mirrors to the Self (Core Concepts in Therapy) by Jan Grant in Back Matter
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