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 informative discussions describe time-sensitive treatments to relieve psychological distress and/or promote growth. Drawing from an encyclopedic knowledge of the professional literature as well as humor, poetry, sports, and candid revelation, Hoyt illustrates the importance of stories, language, love, hope, and time in shaping worldviews that inspire and empower clients and clinicians to make effective and efficient changes.

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