Some Stories are Better than Others

Michael F. Hoyt

1: It's Not My Therapy—It's the Client's Therapy; 2: A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (With Footnotes for Baseball Fans); 3: Some Stories Are Better Than Others; 4: Likely Future Trends and Attendant Ethical Concerns Regarding Managed Mental Health Care; 5: Dilemmas of Postmodern Practice Under Managed Care and Some Pragmatics for Increasing the Likelihood of Treatment Authorization; 6: Interview I: Brief Therapy and Managed Care; 7: Interview II: Autologue: Reflections on Brief Therapy, Social Constructionism, and Managed Care; 8: Solution-Focused Couple Therapy: Helping Clients Construct Self-Fulfilling Realities; 9: Solution-ku; 10: A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings; 11: What Can We Learn From Milton Erickson's Therapeutic Failures?; 12: Unmuddying the Waters: A “Common Ground” Conference; 13: The Joy of Narrative: An Exercise for Learning From Our Internalized Clients; 14: Stage-Appropriate Change-Oriented Brief Therapy Strategies; 15: The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say “When”