Brief Therapy With Intimidating Cases : Changing The Unchangeable - 99 edition

Fisch, Richard : Brief Therapy Center in Palo Alto / Stanford University

Richard Fisch is director of the Brief Therapy Center in Palo Alto, California, which he cofounded in 1966. He is also a senior research fellow at the Mental Research Institute and a clinical associate professor emeritus at Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Fisch is the coauthor of the best-selling classic on brief therapy, Tactics of Change.

Schlanger, Karin : Mental Research Institute / University of San Francisco

Karin Schlanger, M.F.C.C, is the assistant director of the Brief Therapy Center, codirector of the Latino Brief Therapy Center at the Mental Research Institute, and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of San Francisco.

"Filled with rich examples, this is an incisive, carefully analyzed exploration of the pioneering practices created at MRI's Brief Therapy Center."

--Carlos E. Sluzki, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles

"Fisch and Schlanger have done an admirable job of addressing the difficult. They have done this with detailed description of cases and step-by-step explanations for dealing with the 'unchangeable' briefly."

--Paul Watzlawick, emeritus clinical professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

"Filled with rich examples, this is an incisive, carefully analyzed exploration of the pioneering practices created at MRI's Brief Therapy Center."

--Carlos E. Sluzki, clinical professor of psychiatry, University of California Los Angeles

"No other book gives such detailed information for helping people who are caught in hopeless situations. Brief Therapy with Intimidating Cases shows how to succeed with the tough cases even the best therapists usually give up on."

--Lucy Gill, Bramson-Gill Associates

Jossey-Bass Web Site, June, 2001

Introduction

I. Underlying Assumptions
II. Severe Depression
III. Delusions and Paranoia
IV. Anorexia
V. Alcoholism
VI. Incapacitating Problems: Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior
VII. Multiple Problems
VIII. I Can't Stop Mutilating Myself
IX. Where Do We Go From Here

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