Brief Strategic Therapy: Philosophy, Techniques, and Research

All in all, Brief Strategic Therapy is worth reading. (Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic: A Journal for the Mental Health Professions)

--The book presents a rigorous yet self-corrective model (comprising of strategies, communication techniques and therapeutic relationship maneuvers) designed through experimental-empirical research for specific pathologies or problems. --Case studies are used to demonstrate the efficacy of these methods and show how therapy can became a well-planned journey (rigorous yet not rigid) whose point of departure, direction, destination, and duration can be fairly clear and predictable from the very beginning.

Giorgio Nardone is the director of the Centro di Terapia Strategica (Strategic Therapy Center) and of the Post Graduate School of Brief Strategic Psychotherapy in Arezzo. He is also professor of Brief Psychotherapy at the Post Graduate School of Clinical Psychology, University of Siena, Italy.
Paul Watzlawick, Ph.D., is one of the world's leading theoreticians in communication theory and radical constructivism. He participates in the Mental Research Institute's Brief Therapy Centre and also offers workshops on the Therapy of "As-If."