ABSTRACT
This chapter is an account of a clinician's experience with the practice of brief therapy in the city of Madras, South India. It is motivated by the expectation that cross-cultural evaluations of the efficacy of a recently originated form of psychotherapy would be of general interest to fellow practitioners. First the reader, unfamiliar with Indian conditions, is given a quick assessment of the state-of-the-art of psychotherapy in India. Some of the pressures faced by practitioners of this newly emerging discipline are then highlighted. This is followed by a section on the relevance of Brief Therapy in the Indian context. In the final section, a few case studies illustrate the use of some specific and general interventions of Brief Therapy in the environment in Madras.
