Brief Therapy and Beyond

Brief Therapy and Beyond is a collection of new and selected papers by prominent psychologist Michael Hoyt. Numerous clinical vignettes and fascinating discussions describe time-sensitive treatments to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth.

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D. (Yale '76) is a recipient of the prestigious APF Cummings Psyche Prize for lifetime contributions to the role of psychologists in organized healthcare. He has also been honored as a Distinguished Continuing Education Speaker by both the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and as a Contributor of Note by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation.

Preface  Acknowledgments  Also by Michael F. Hoyt  1. "Patient" or "Client":  What's in a Name?  (1979)  2. "Shrink" or "Expander":  An Issue in Forming a Therapeutic Alliance (1985)  3. On Time in Brief Therapy (1990)  4. A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (with Footnotes for Baseball Fans)  (1996)  5. Managed Care, HMOs, and Brief Therapy (1995)  6. Some Stories Are Better than Others:  A Polyvocal Pastiche (2000)  7. A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings (2000)  8. The Last Session in Brief Therapy:  Why and How to Say "When" (2000)  9. Early HMO Chart Note: Jesus of Nazareth (crisis log) (2001)  10. Connection: The Double-Edged Gift of Presence (2001)  11. Some Things I Have Learned from Friends and Clients about Empowerment and Rehabilitation (2001)  12. Road Trip (2003)  13. Toward a More Effective Brief Therapy (2003)  14. The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions Often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments-Plus a Host of Helpful Hints (2006)  15. Everyday Constructivism (2008)  16. Dust to Dust (2009)  17. "Never Ever-I Love You!"  (2011)  18. Psychology and My Gallbladder:  An Insider's Account of a Single-Session Therapy (2011)  19. Wither Couple/Family Therapy? (2012, with Alan Gurman)  20. Single Session Therapy (SST):  Stories, Structures, Themes, Cautions, and Prospects (2015)  21. Stepping into Retirement: A Postcard from the Threshold (2015)  22. Orca Strait (2016)  References