Cambiando lo Incambiable : la terapia breve en casos intimidantes

by Richard Fisch, Karin Schlanger

El presente volumen recoge la experiencia de la aplicación del modelo de la terapia breve en aquellas situaciones calificadas como graves o difíciles, tales como la depresión, la anorexia, las psicosis o el alcoholismo, desmitificando las construcciones semánticas que revisten estos trastornos. Según los autores, no existen casos intimidantes, sino que estos son juicios de valor sobre algunas conductas sintomáticas de los pacientes. A pesar de las críticas recibidas desde otros enfoques, que reducen la eficacia de la terapia breve a problemas concretos, acotados y de relativa simplicidad, Schlanger y Fisch demuestran que el modelo es idóneo en este tipo de casos, ya que la clave reside en trabajar con conductas y no con diagnósticos.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction

197 pages, Paperback

First published December 30, 1998

Reviews

[Reix · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really love this kind of brief therapy and I find it very useful. The book shows several real cases, as well as the principles of the functioning of this non-directive therapy, centered in the problem (the disfunctional behaviour), instead of treating the patient as if he/she was an ill person. The behaviour is the one who is ill, but not the person, something really important to get the client feel confident and non judged. Besides, trying to normalize the "wrong" behaviour, breaks a lot of barriers to get the final objective.
The most interesting cases, in my opinion, are the ones about paranoid people that only with a couple of sessions get to normalize their disfunctional behaviours and weird thoughts.
There's still a long way to do in problem centered therapy, but for me, the greatest barriers for its more outspread use are the economic interests: most therapists prefer to keep a troubled patient for a long time instead of helping him/her faster, so they can get more money in the process...