Moshe Talmon

• Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo

The three main findings of studies conducted by Hoyt, Rosenbaum, and myself during the years 1986–1990 at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, were: 1. Single session is the most common length of psychotherapy.2. The first session in psychotherapy is potentially the most therapeutic and often has the greatest influence on the outcome of therapy.3....

This paper attempts to clarify Minuchin's concept of family boundaries and to modify the original definition to one based on social systems concepts that are neutral with respect to pathology. The authors distinguish between logical and physical conceptualizations of “boundary” and differentiate the broad metaphor of family boundaries into proximit...

In this article the authors seek a partial answer to the intriguing question of the nature of the factors which help some persons achieve healthy resolution of the divorce crisis with personal gains and successful post-divorce adjustment. A group of 24 divorced people (all members of different Israeli kibbutzim) who fulfilled the criteria used by t...

Based on a study of hundreds of single-session cases, this book offers a realistic, practical approach to using a single therapeutic session to prompt substantial changes in patients' lives. Rather than suggesting that the therapist condense five or twenty sessions into one, the author describes how to make the most of patients' innate ability to h...