Category: Case studies
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Case study: ending panic attacks in five sessions with brief strategic therapy
A composite case, built from typical presentations and published protocols, showing a favourable five-session course and why five is not the average.
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Case study: a couple caught in a pursue-withdraw loop
A composite case showing how a demand-withdraw sequence can be interrupted by two small agreed changes, without settling whose complaint was more legitimate.
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Case study: breaking an OCD checking ritual with a paradoxical prescription
A published case from the strategic literature: a ten-year-old’s reassurance ritual broken with a symptom prescription and a transitional object.
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Case study: one session, one shift. A single-session intervention with three-month follow-up
A composite case showing what one strategic session can do when the problem is narrow enough for one meeting to be the whole plan.