Focused Psychotherapy Offers practitioners an approach to psychotherapeutic treatment that is both financially viable and has sufficient clinical depth to assure genuine psychological growth. Providing a strikingly clear description of this approach, this volume enables psychotherapists to quickly hone in on the client's true agenda, therefore avoiding unnecessarily long and drawn out therapeutic work.

Nick Cummings, Mike Sayama

Introduction; Part 1 BRIEF, INTERMITTENT PSYCHOTHERAPY THROUGHOUT THE LIFE CYCLE; Chapter 1 The Developmental View; Chapter 2 Managed Care and Brief, Intermittent Psychotherapy Throughout the Life Cycle; Chapter 3 Psychojudo; Chapter 4 Structuring the Episode; Part 2 ONION AND GARLIC PSYCHODYNAMICS; Chapter 5 Onion/Analyzable; Chapter 6 Garlic/Analyzable; Chapter 7 Schizophrenia; Chapter 8 Schizophrenia: Onion /Nonanalyzable; Chapter 9 Schizophrenia: Garlic /Nonanalyzable; Part 3 Part III SUICIDALITY; Chapter 10 Treating Suicidal Patients; APPENDIX; References; INDEX;