A case where fate seemed sealed

In this book, the author sets out to convey to the reader her singular way of recreating the essential landmarks of brief therapy. She illustrates it by applying it to a case whose very complex problem “normally” takes on the meaning of a grim fate. A fate that leaves us too on a tightrope, in the image of what she conveys of the client’s experience of the problem she has to face: it involves drugs, delinquency and AIDS, whose presence points to a failure held to be inevitable in the family, in society, and also in psychotherapeutic approaches in general. It is for this reason that the case presented offers an excellent opportunity to get a concrete feel for the therapeutic strategy at work.

The author subtitles her book theory of technique because she considers that rarely, as in this construction, does theory state itself so clearly as the technique is applied.

What the author calls brief therapy

What, then, is brief therapy for her?