The Dilemmas of Brief Psychotherapy

Selective Inattention.- After the Episode of Brief Psychotherapy.- Psychic Inflation, Deflation, and Vacillation.- The Focus Needs to Be Double: The Dilemma.- The Three Parts of This Book.- The Readership.- I. Beginning, Middle, and Ending Dilemmas.- 1. The Freshness of First Sessions.- 2. Perils at the Outset.- 3. Female Dilemmas.- 4. Male Dilemmas.- 5. Sharp Endings.- 6. Loose Endings.- II. Simple and Complex Dilemmas.- 7. Subserving Others May Be Bad for Me.- 8. I Cannot Decide.- 9. I Am Entitled.- 10. More Complex Idealists.- 11. More Complex Detours.- 12. More Complex Passion.- III. Inner and Outer Worlds.- 13. Dream as an Individual Map of Dilemma.- 14. On Seeing the Social World Coming.- 15. Ten Follow-up Evaluations and the Science of Brief Psychotherapy.- References.