Der Dreh

How do solutions emerge? This question leads Steve de Shazer to a provocative discussion of solution-focused conversations between therapist and client. The answer culminates in the key statement, "Once you know what works, you move on with it." Once therapist and client focus on developing solutions, therapy inevitably becomes short-term therapy. Case histories with often surprising twists illustrate this practical theory of short-term therapy. With this book, De Shazer provided insights that revolutionized the entire theory and practice of psychotherapy. His approach is recognized as an original fusion of Milton H. Erickson's hypnotherapeutic interventions with solution-oriented approaches of systemic brief therapy.