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BRIEF PSYCHOTHERAPY Introduction Messer's tex

Messer's textbook, Models of Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (1995), is critically discussed relative to its merits as a comprehensive review and evaluation of brief treatment. Focus will include theory, research, and practice of brief psychotherapy. Discussion will also encompass how brief treatment models differ from long-term models, and an evaluation of the textbook.

Messer reports that brief psychodynamic psychotherapy theories include drive/structural, relational and cognitive, integrative/analytic, and eclectic. The drive/structural model encompasses brief psychodynamic therapy which began with Malan's brief intensive psychotherapy (BIP), Davanloo's intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP), and Sifneos's short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy (STAPP). An intersystemic conflict model of the mind starts with the concept of drive or wish. Freud stated that motor driving behavior consists of sexual and aggressive energies (id) and their derivatives (wishes, impulses); ego modulates drives by instituting defenses that help to keep the drive in check. Superego manipulates with guilt. Failure of a defense may result in anxiety.

Davanloo and Malan refer to the triangle of conflict (impulse or feeling leads to defense, if unsuccessful results in anxiety). Brenner expanded the defense motive to include any unpleasurable affect, particularly depressive affect. Thus the structural (id, ego, superego) and dynamic (conflict) of the drive/structural model are illustrated. Brief therapy is designed to discern the current and underlying conflict.

The relational model is a second trend in brief psychodynamic psychotherapy, an alternative to Freud's drive/structural model and a synthesis of several traditions. Therapy in this case responds to object relational dichotomy. Relational movements are more concerned with the transference and countertransference relationship, the interactional components of transfe...

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