A Study of Brief Psychotherapy

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1963 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> I: Historical and Theoretical Survey; 1: Introductory; 2: Historical Approach; 3: Review of Previous Work on Brief Psychotherapy; II: The Present Work; 4: Preliminary; 5: The Assessment of Therapeutic Results; 6: Assessment and Therapy Forms; 7: Psychodynamic Assessment and its Bearing on the Validity of Brief Psychotherapy; 8: The Therapeutic Results and the Problem of relating them to other Factors; 9: Selection Criteria; 10: The General Characteristics of these Therapies with Special Reference to Technique; II: The Relation between Transference Interpretation and Outcome: Clinical Approach; 12: The Exploration of a more 'Objective' Quantitative Approach to the Relation between Technique and Outcome; 13: Recapitulation and Conclusion