ABSTRACT
I was asked the other day by a group of our secretaries and administrative assistants what is the “brief therapy” of my Brief Psychotherapy Clinic. They understood my answer at once by reference to the cartoon on my office door. It is a picture of two mechanics sitting on their chairs in the doorway of their service garage, watching a person driving a convertible go around in circles waving to them (counterclockwise). One of the mechanics (on the right) is speaking to the other in the caption of the cartoon: “At what point does this become our problem?” (New Yorker, February 18 and 25, 2002, p. 202).
