Michael F. Hoyt, Ph.D. (Yale '76) is a recipient of the prestigious APF Cummings Psyche Prize for lifetime contributions to the role of psychologists in organized healthcare. He has also been honored as a Distinguished Continuing Education Speaker by both the American Psychological Association and the International Association of Marriage and Family Counselors, as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and as a Contributor of Note by the Milton H. Erickson Foundation.

Preface Acknowledgments Also by Michael F. Hoyt 1. "Patient" or "Client": What's in a Name? (1979) 2. "Shrink" or "Expander": An Issue in Forming a Therapeutic Alliance (1985) 3. On Time in Brief Therapy (1990) 4. A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (with Footnotes for Baseball Fans) (1996) 5. Managed Care, HMOs, and Brief Therapy (1995) 6. Some Stories Are Better than Others: A Polyvocal Pastiche (2000) 7. A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings (2000) 8. The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say "When" (2000) 9. Early HMO Chart Note: Jesus of Nazareth (crisis log) (2001) 10. Connection: The Double-Edged Gift of Presence (2001) 11. Some Things I Have Learned from Friends and Clients about Empowerment and Rehabilitation (2001) 12. Road Trip (2003) 13. Toward a More Effective Brief Therapy (2003) 14. The Temporal Structure of Therapy: Key Questions Often Associated with Different Phases of Sessions and Treatments-Plus a Host of Helpful Hints (2006) 15. Everyday Constructivism (2008) 16. Dust to Dust (2009) 17. "Never Ever-I Love You!" (2011) 18. Psychology and My Gallbladder: An Insider's Account of a Single-Session Therapy (2011) 19. Wither Couple/Family Therapy? (2012, with Alan Gurman) 20. Single Session Therapy (SST): Stories, Structures, Themes, Cautions, and Prospects (2015) 21. Stepping into Retirement: A Postcard from the Threshold (2015) 22. Orca Strait (2016) References