ABSTRACT
One of the first therapists who practised single-session therapy (SST) was Sigmund Freud. While there are periodic references to single-session treatment in the literature from that time onwards, with well-known therapists like Alfred Adler, Milton Erickson and Albert Ellis pioneering the use of single therapy sessions often conducted in front of professional and lay audiences, it was not until 1990 that the field of SST began to cohere. This is when Moshe Talmon, the subject of the following interview, published a book which many, including himself, consider seminal and which marked the beginning of a growing interest in SST by appointment or by walk-in. From those early pioneering days, SST has challenged commonly held ideas such as that psychological change occurs gradually and that treatment should only be initiated after a thorough case formulation has been undertaken.
