ABSTRACT
This book is a compilation of twelve interviews with brief therapy experts and some of the field's most influential innovators (O'Hanlon, de Shazer, White, and Meichenbaum to name a few). The interviews, conducted to explore technical, theoretical, and ethical aspects of the theory and practice of brief therapy, offer the give-and-take spontaneity that can only be found in an interview style. The selection of the content is based on both the expertise of the interviewees as well as those issues of most concern to the field: managed care and economics, ethics, and being solution-focused.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |33 pages
On the Importance of Keeping it Simple and Taking the Patient Seriously
A Conversation with Steve de Shazer and John Weakland
chapter |26 pages
On Ethics and the Spiritualities of the Surface
A Conversation with Michael White and Gene Combs
chapter |24 pages
Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder from a Narrative Constructivist Perspective
A Conversation with Donald Meichenbaum
chapter |23 pages
Contact, Contract, Change, Encore
A Conversation about Redecision Therapy with Bob Goulding
chapter |26 pages
Solution Building and Language Games
A Conversation with Steve de Shazer (and Some after Words with Insoo Kim Berg)
chapter |22 pages
Postmodernism, the Relational Self, Constructive Therapies, and Beyond
A Conversation with Kenneth Gergen
chapter |20 pages
About Constructivism (or, if Four Colleagues Talked in New York, Would Anyone Hear it?)
A Conversation with Scott Miller, Barbara Held, and William Matthews
chapter |19 pages
Brief Therapy and Managed Care
A Conversation with Michael Hoyt and Jon Matthew Carlson
chapter |20 pages
Honoring Our Internalized Others and the Ethics of Caring
A Conversation with Karl Tomm and Stephen Madigan
chapter |29 pages
Direction and Discovery
A Conversation about Power and Politics in Narrative Therapy with Michael White and Jeff Zimmerman
