Knowing Through Changing: The Evolution of Brief Strategic Therapy Book

This book is the result of fifteen years of clinical research from the Brief Strategic Center (Centro di Terapia Strategica) in Arezzo, Italy. It puts forth a simple yet comprehensive description of the epistemology and genealogy of Brief Strategic Therapy with importance is given to the first treatment session. It emphasizes the most evolved therapeutic interventions for each of the disorders studied, which include: anxiety and phobic disorders; depression; eating disorders; blocked-performance pathologies; child behavior problems; and more. The authors discuss the underlying logic of each disorder and its variants, the attempted solutions that maintain and worsen the problem and a step-by-step description of effective therapy.This volume is a comprehensive, critical report of the different research approaches used in the study of psychotherapy. It is followed by a detailed account of the intervention used at numerous institutes and clinics around the world! that rely on the Advanced Brief Strategic Model. In summary, this volume presents what are now being practiced using Brief Strategic Therapy, as well as prospects for the future.Read More