Sector Therapy is a “short-term” psychotherapy based predominantly upon the theories and clinical experience of modern psychoanalysis. The interview material in each session is kept within a sector concerned with the origin and development of the presenting symptoms or problem by means of a special verbal feedback technique. (11 pp.)
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Short-Term Dynamic Therapy of Stress Response Syndromes
Treatment of stress response syndromes is centered on completing the information processing cycles initiated by the stress and sometimes this includes facilitation of warding off maneuvers, just as at other times the patient will be helped to set aside unconscious defensive operations. Transference and core neurotic conflicts will be interpreted according to their real relationship to the current stress. This will permit a clear focus for brief therapy.
Short-Term Supportive-Expressive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy
The main techniques are: being sensitive in allowing the patient to form a helping alliance, formulate and respond about the central relationship patterns, understand and respond about where the symptom fits into the pattern, attend to and respond to concerns about getting involved in the therapy and then separating, responses should be timed in relation to the patient’s awareness, frame the symptoms as problem-solving attempts and interventions should be limited in complexity and length. (47 pp.)
