The book reflects a new stage in the development of short-term therapy, reviving the hope of therapists to receive satisfaction from their professional activities while striving to achieve results in the shortest possible time. Ecker and Hallie created both an analytical, phenomenological and empirical direction of psychotherapy, based on the unification of these approaches and on the latest achievements of cognitive science. The short-term therapy they developed not only retained the versatility and depth of human meanings and experiences, not only retained a deep dimension in short-term therapy, but it is thanks to working directly with the key elements of emotional and unconscious contents that the therapy they proposed becomes so effective as to be short-term.