Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Also by Michael F. Hoyt -- 1 "Patient" or "Client": What's in a Name? -- 2 "Shrink" or "Expander": An Issue in Forming a Therapeutic Alliance -- 3 On Time in Brief Therapy -- 4 A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (with Footnotes for Baseball Fans) -- 5 Managed Care and Brief Therapy -- 6 Some Stories are Better than Others: A Polyvocal Pastiche -- 7 A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings -- 8 The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say "When"--9 Early HMO Chart Note: Jesus of Nazareth -- 10 Connection: The Double-Edged Gift of Presence -- 11 Some Things I Have Learned from Friends and Clients about Empowerment and Rehabilitation -- 12 Road Trip -- 13 Toward a More Effective Brief Therapy -- 14 The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions Often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments-Plus a Host of Helpful Hints -- 15 Everyday Constructivism -- 16 Dust to Dust -- 17 "Never Ever-I Love You!"--18 Psychology and My Gallbladder: An Insider's Account of a Single-Session Therapy -- 19 Wither Couple/Family Therapy? (with Alan S. Gurman) -- 20 Single-Session Therapy (SST): Stories, Structures, Themes, Cautions, and Prospects -- 21 Stepping into Retirement: A Postcard from the Threshold -- 22 Orca Strait -- References -- Index