Brief Therapy with Intimidating Cases

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. 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.

• Introduction. Underlying Assumptions. Severe Depression. Delusions and Paranoia. Anorexia. Alcoholism. Incapacitating Problems: Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior. Multiple Problems. I Can't Stop Mutilating Myself. Where Do We Go From Here. Suggested Readings.

"Fisch and Schlanger have done an admirable job of addressing thedifficult. They have done this with detailed description of casesand step-by-step explanations for dealing with the 'unchangeable'briefly." --Paul Watzlawick, emeritus clinical professor,Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, StanfordUniversity "Filled with rich examples, this is an incisive, carefully analyzedexploration of the pioneering practices created at MRI's BriefTherapy Center." --Carlos E. Sluzki, clinical professor ofpsychiatry, University of California Los Angeles "No other book gives such detailed information for helping peoplewho are caught in hopeless situations. Brief Therapy withIntimidating Cases shows how to succeed with the tough cases eventhe best therapists usually give up on." --Lucy Gill, Bramson-GillAssociates