ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author focuses on the subject of Single-Session Therapy (SST). The essence of any psychotherapy is the same as that of SST. Life and therapy are an eternal now. The most intriguing lesson the author learned from teaching SST is that those services are greatly needed with the most challenging cases: homeless youngsters living on the streets, sexually abused women, hard-core addicts, unemployed poor single mothers as well as hospitalized cancer patients in stage four of the illness. The more the author got devoted and committed to seeking psychohealth instead of psychopathology, resources over deficiencies, strengths and abilities over disabilities and disorders, the less convinced he got about the concept of "cure" as a goal in psychotherapy. The pathogenic-medical model that therapy should start when a patient is properly diagnosed as being ill or having a mental disorder and should end when that patient is cured is, at best, misleading both for therapists and patients.
