Brief Strategic Solution-Oriented Therapy of Phobic and Obsessive Disorders

This text deals with psychological disorders based on irrational fears - those apparently unmotivated, paralyzing, panic-filled, gut-wrenching fears whose multiplicity and diversity are barely contained in the diagnoses phobias and obsessional disorders. The author, therapist Giorgio Nardone, offers a brief (usually less than 20 sessions) treatment method that leads to a change in the interpersonal, cognitive and emotional organizations that underlie these painful and all-too-common problems. Using a strategic framework, the therapist focuses on reframing the patient's representations of self and other, and changing the relational patterns that sustain the patient's fearful perceptions. Based on extensive research and illustrated with in-depth clinical examples, this book is intended to offer hope to those whose lives have been unnecessarily limited by their phobias and obsessions.