title: Brief psychotherapy in medical practice. Keys to success.
abstract: For physicians faced with helping their patients cope with difficult medical problems, solution-oriented psychotherapeutic techniques provide brief, effective interventions. These approaches offer "skeleton keys" that can be used in a broad patient population. They include clarifying the meaning of the medical illness, therapeutic reframing, projection of the problem, role reversal, and face-saving techniques.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of California, School of Medicine, San Francisco.
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Eisendrath
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003142:Communication; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D011614:Psychotherapy, Brief; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000628:therapy