ABSTRACT
To fulfill the Biodyne Patient Bill of Rights by providing relief from pain, anxiety, and depression in the shortest time possible and with the least intrusive intervention, the therapist must be highly skilled in dispensing not only effective, but also efficient psychotherapy. It must be emphasized that this does not mean the usual perfunctory skills training inasmuch as conventionally in psychology this involves only evidence-based interventions. Hopefully, on rare occasions, it also addresses the thorny question of whether “evidence-based” transcends the laboratory into the real world of co-morbidities and other complexities that were not an issue in the need for pure cases to fulfill the research design. The issue of “the shortest time possible” is, if at all, a response to the limited number of sessions currently approved for reimbursement by managed care.
