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There is a burgeoning need for clinicians to be willing and able to apply effective short-term therapy methods if the needs of more than a handful of patients are to be served. Long-term treatment, even when effective, requires more time and expense than is feasible for most people. It was Freud (1937/1964) himself who recognized this when he described analysis as “interminable” and called for the development of new, more efficient treatment methods based on psychoanalytic principles. Among the various forms of brief therapy that have been developed (see Budman, 1981; Flegenheimer, 1982; Mandel, 1981; Sloane and Staples, 1979), a number of short-term psychodynamic approaches have been well described for use with neurotic-level patients.1 They all have in common the following characteristics: