Depth Oriented Brief Therapy

Reach a new stage in brief therapy

Is it possible for clinicians to provide in-depth therapy in the cost-conscious, time-limited world of managed care?

This groundbreaking book offers clinicians new hope of maintaining professional satisfaction in time-effective practice. Authors Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley provide a practical guide for clinicians on how to work deeply and briefly with individuals, couples, and families, and shows how to meet the challenge of managed care without losing the deeper levels of change traditionally associated with long-term or existential work.

By using Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy, you'll work directly and immediately with the emotional and unconscious meanings that structure the very existence of the presenting problem.

“"A challenging, precise, and exciting approach to therapy that will delight those therapists who celebrate the complexity of clients. Ecker and Hulley combine a thoughtful attention to the unconscious with a commitment to making every session count. Gutsy, convincing, and powerful!" (David B. Waters, Ph.D., professor family practice and psychiatry, University of Virginia, author of Competence, Courage and Change)”

BRUCE ECKER is a psychotherapist in private practice, teaches brief therapy at John F. Kennedy University, and is a clinical staff trainer at numerous mental health agencies. He is the coauthor of Spiritual Choices: The Problem of Recognizing Authentic Paths to Inner Transformation (1987). His work in psychotherapy follows a lengthy career in physics research. LAUREL HULLEY is in private practice and as Director of Clinical Training for Pacific Seminars develops and designs professional trainings in depth-oriented brief therapy. The authors, based in Oakland, California, are the originators of depth-oriented bried therapy.

Written for clinicians, this groundbreaking book shows how to work directly and immediately with emotional and unconscious meanings that structure the very existence of a problem. It represents a new stage in brief therapy, and offers clinicians the hope of maintaining professional satisfaction in time-effective practice.

In this groundbreaking book, authors Bruce Ecker and Laurel Hulley show how to work directly and immediately with the emotional and unconscious meanings that structure the very existence of the presenting problem, making in-depth therapy so effective as to be brief. Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy represents a new stage in brief therapy and offers clinicians new hope of maintaining professional satisfaction in the time-effective practice demanded by today's managedcare environment. This is a brilliant, breakthrough book. Ecker and Hulley have created a psychotherapy which is at once analytic, phenomenological, and experiential, based not only on this integration, but on recent developments in cognitive science. This innovative context raises each of these fields to new levels of efficacy and depth. Accessible, nonpathologizing language, sophisticated yet profoundly simple theory, and powerful therapeutic process combine to make this work of the highest significance. I have rarely been this impressed. STEPHEN M. JOHNSON, PHD, author of Character Styles, The Symbiotic Character, Humanizing the Narcissistic Style, and Characterological Transformation. A challenging, precise, and exciting approach to therapy that will delight those therapists who celebrate and cherish the complexity of clients. Ecker and Hulley combine a thoughtful attention to the unconscious with a commitment to making every session count. Gutsy, convincing, and powerful! DAVID B. WATERS, PHD, professor of family practice and psychiatry, University of Virginia, and author of Competence, Courage, and Change This book offers creative examples of how constructivism can be applied in clinical practice. The authors show how an experiential approach to felt meanings can help clients explore alternative personal realities. This is recommended reading. MICHAEL J. MAHONEY, PHD, professor of psychology, University of North Texas, and author of Human Change Processes

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