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Six-Months, Fixed-Term, Once Weekly Psychotherapy: A Report on 20 Cases with Follow-ups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Harold Stewart
Harold Stewart*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, University College Hospital, W.C.1
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The difficulties in providing adequate psychotherapy facilities in the N.H.S. are well known, and various psychotherapeutic techniques have been used to try to cope with them. Of these the most important have been variants of group and brief psychotherapy, and it is with the latter that this paper is concerned. The technique I have used in this series is to offer patients once-weekly psychotherapy for a maximum period of 6 months and then to terminate no matter what progress has been made, the patient having been informed of these conditions from the start. In this paper I shall consider the criteria used in the selection of patients, the technique and probable mode of action, a brief account of the cases with the therapeutic results obtained, and the follow-up on these cases.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 121 , Issue 563 , October 1972 , pp. 425 - 435
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1972 

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