Brief Therapy: Lasting Impressions

Proceedings of an August 1998 conference held in New York City, which brought together the most renowned international practitioners of brief therapy. Twenty-six contributions are arranged in sections on principles and practice, contemporary perspectives, therapeutic approaches, and the person of the therapist. A sampling of topics: the current position on the recovered memory debate, expanding a psychotherapy practice through Medicare, brief psychosocial treatments for panic disorder, and the experience of "negative otherness." No subject index. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)