Very brief psychotherapy - Gustafson, James Paul (New York : Routledge, 2005)
Anxiety as a signal of danger -- Depression as a signal of defeat -- The compensations for unbearable anxiety and depression -- Schooling against false claims -- Backing up the history from disaster -- Walking forward to read the exchanges in work and love -- The opposing current to receptiveness -- The opposing current to pushing -- The opposing current to guilt -- Relationship or marital impasse -- Work impasse -- Developmental impasse -- Scientific evidence and very brief psychotherapy -- Follow up judgments by patients described in the text -- Drawings and letters -- The defense of the doctor/psychotherapist -- Dreaming the theory of this book -- A theoretical note on the scaffolding of this book
Keywords: Anxiety Disorders -- therapy; Depressive Disorder -- therapy; Psychological theory