Abstract
The psychotherapeutic facilitation of “decisive moments of life,” such as that described above, is not necessarily a function of treatment duration. Even a single session of therapy can sometimes provide a pivotal moment, invoking the “magic force dwelling in beginnings” that guards us and helps us to live.
...[H]e felt a faint shiver, a matutinal coolness and sobriety which told him that the hour had come, that from now on there could be no more hesitating or lingering. This peculiar feeling, which he was wont to call ‘awakening,’ was familiar to him from other decisive moments of his life. It was both vitalizing and painful, mingling a sense of farewell and of setting out on new adventures, shaking him deep down in his unconscious mind like a spring storm.... a line of verse suddenly sprang into his mind:
In all beginnings dwells a magic force For guarding us and helping us to live... So be it, heart: bid farewell without end!
H. Hesse, The Glass Bead Game,1943/1969, pp. 370–371
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Rosenbaum, R., Hoyt, M.F., Talmon, M. (1990). The Challenge of Single-Session Therapies. In: Wells, R.A., Giannetti, V.J. (eds) Handbook of the Brief Psychotherapies. Applied Clinical Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2127-7_8
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