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1. If You Desire to See, Learn How to Act |
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2. Nonordinary Logic for Strategic Problem Solving |
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From Epistemology to Logic: For Better Guidelines in Brief Therapy |
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Nonordinary Logic and Brief Therapy |
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3. Heresies of the Strategic Approach |
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Choose Probability Over "Truth" |
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First Heresy: Passing from Closed to Open Theoretical Systems |
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Second Heresy: Focus on How Rather Than Why |
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Third Heresy: The Therapist Is Responsible |
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Fourth Heresy: Change Comes Before Insight |
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4. Clinical Practice |
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Processes and Procedures of Therapy |
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First Appointment and Building of the Therapeutic Relationship |
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Agreement on the Goals of Therapy |
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Identifying the Perceptive-Reactive System Maintaining the Problem |
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Therapy Programming and Strategies of Change |
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Actions and Therapeutic Communication |
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Use of Paradox and of Paradoxical Communication Patterns |
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The Utilization of Resistance |
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The Use of Metaphor, Anecdotes, and Stories |
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5. Advanced Techniques: From General to Specific Models of Brief Therapy |
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Case 1: Agoraphobia with Panic Attacks |
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Case 2: Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior |
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Case 4: Paranoia and Obsessive Doubts |
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Case 7: Blocked Performance |
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6. Unusual Case Examples: Tales of Apparently Magical Therapies |
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Case 1: The Neighbors Want to See Me Naked |
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Case 2: The Energy-Draining Magnet |
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Case 3: A Phobia of Mirrors |
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Case 4: The Obsession of Doing It in One's Pants |
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Case 5: The Repetition of Mental Formulas |
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Case 6: The Mother-Dependent Psychiatrist |
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Case 7: We Can Help You Do It Better |
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Case 8: The Wall of Silence |
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Case 9: The Unending Thesis |
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7. Outcome Research |
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References |
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Index |
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