James Gustafson is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin and the author of thirteen books on psychotherapy, including Very Brief Psychotherapy, The Complex Secret of Brief Psychotherapy and The Dilemmas of Brief Psychotherapy. He is a graduate of Harvard College with AB and of Harvard Medical School with MD.
This work deals with the questions of which patients benefit most from long- term treatment, which do better in short-term treatment and which may even degenerate when seen in a long-term... (more)
As the fields of psychiatry and clinical psychology are increasingly driven by the economics of the HMO or Mental Health Center, practitioners in any setting, whether it be private practice or... (more)