TABLE OF CONTENTS: Part 1: Introduction. 1 The Brief Psychotherapies: A Selective Overview. 2 The Therapeutic Interaction: Research Perspectives. 3 An Integrative Model for Short-Term Treatment. 4 Brief Treatment and Mental Health Policy.

A collection of case studies encompassing a number of the commonly encountered clinical problems that have been treated with the approaches elaborated in the same editors' Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies (1990).