ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the reader with a basic guide as to the key concepts in the practice of brief psychodynamic psychotherapy. This is a brief psychodynamic method that deals with the past through the present, in order to improve the present and future. The chapter explores the reader’s appetite and encourage therapists to incorporate some of the ideas into their work in brief therapy. The aspects such as activity, flexibility, and the fusion of skills, an agreed focus and time span for the work, and the importance of the first session, all of which can enable the work to move on more swiftly. In therapy, people reveal areas of pain in their lives to the therapist. Facilitated by the therapist, they then work with and through these areas of pain to a more free existence.
