Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations: Unusual Interventions to Help Clients

Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations introduces readers to the innovative approaches that therapists sometimes take when standardized, paint-by-numbers routines don’t work. Each chapter presents the story of one or more difficult psychotherapy situations followed by the therapists’ descriptions of what they did and why, as well as the outcome that resulted. The authors and their stories span a wide variety of theoretical approaches and contexts, showing how clinicians can improvise beyond everyday scenarios and techniques. This collection of provocative, instructive vignettes from well-known practitioners often generates “You said what?!” reactions while encouraging readers to think creatively in the moment in order to reach healthy, innovative outcomes from the trickiest and most unexpected therapeutic scenarios.

Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D., is a psychologist based in Mill Valley, California. He is

the author/editor of numerous publications, including Single-Session Therapy

by Walk-In or Appointment; Brief Therapy and Beyond; and Therapist Stories of

Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal.

Monte Bobele, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Our Lady of the

Lake University in San Antonio, Texas. He is the co-editor of Single-Session

Therapy by Walk-In or Appointment and When One Hour is All You Have, and the

author of numerous other publications.