Two Cases of Brief Therapy in an HMO

Therapeutic aphorisms for paranoid personality disorder and paranoid ideation treatment: psychological opposites and complementaries in brief therapy

“…Brief therapy (BT) (Watzlawick et al, 1967(Watzlawick et al, , 1974Haley, 1973Haley, , 1985aHaley, ,b,c, 1987Weakland et al, 1974;Watzlawick, 1977;Fisch et al, 1982;de Shazer, 1988;Gulotta, 1997;O'Hanlon and Beadle, 1997;Watzlawick and Nardone, 1997;Soo-Hoo, 1997Fisch and Schlanger, 1999;Hoyt, 2009;Huibers, 2010;Hagg, 2011;Cepukiene and Pakrosnis, 2011;Petruccelli and Verrastro, 2012;Hoyt and Talmon, 2014;Paoli, 2014Paoli, , 2019Pietrabissa et al, 2016;Broadman, 2017;Cannistrà and Piccirilli, 2018;Kim et al, 2019;Solis and Vargas, 2019;Vitry et al, 2019Vitry et al, , 2021Koorankot, 2021;Proietti et al, 2022;Asai and Asai, 2023;Espugnatore et al, 2023) has intercepted the therapeutic value of As (Watzlawick, 1977;Nardone, 2007;Rampin, 2007;Paoli, 2014) to such an extent that in BT training, students are invited to practice the study of As. A brief examination of some of the founding principles of BT (referred to in the Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy as "Contextual Brief Therapies"; Steenbarger, 2002) will be useful to better understand the reason behind the predilection of this therapeutic approach toward the As:…”

Single-session psychotherapy for depression: is it better to focus on problems or solutions?

“…Given all this, it seems important to investigate veiy brief interventions with depressed persons to determine whether or not they are helpful. The study proposed here will assess Kaiser-Permanente, a large health maintenance organization (Hoyt, 1990;Hoyt, 1992b;Hoyt, Rosenbaum, & Talmon, 1992;Rosenbaum, Hoyt, & Talmon, 1990;and Talmon, 1990). The monetary advantages of very brief therapy in this setting are obvious, but these psychologists have argued convincingly that the idea of SST should be seriously considered in its own right.…”