Short term psychotherapy insomnia cognitive behavioral treatment of cbt i is an empirically validated brief psychotherapy with 70 80 of cognitive and interpersonal therapy psychiatric aspects cj mace in international encyclopedia of the social psychiatry overview the field has . Summary short term psychotherapy is used by all physicians and surgeons since 80 per cent of all human ills have obvious emoaeuro tional components the patientaeurtms faith in his practitioner may greatly determine the ultimate outcome of the illness cold sciaeuro entific reasoning may help the patient but positive suggestion based on scientific fact is more effective conscious . Short term psychotherapy is characterized by a reduction in the number of interviews as compared with the conventional methods and by more limited therapeutic objectives it is still based on psychoanalysis but the setting and problematics are different interviews take place face to face and include a so called focalization the results on the whole are interesting short term . Of course short term psychotherapy has many limitations in that the degree of change is often more limited than in well done longer term work yet it has been the experience of work with a significant number of clients that significant change can take place in a short period of time and that this can be satisfying for the client it is also of note that short term work can have a great deal of