It's an interesting article, and I can see how such an approach might be effective for some people, in dealing with some situations.

However, I hesitate to say that it could work for every situation or every person. For people with serious trust issues, getting to the deep part of therapy just can't be done in a brief amount of time, because first you have to build trust with the therapist. That's actually been my biggest struggle with ever even considering CBT...I'm expected to trust a new therapist right away, and it won't happen.

Reading the case study in the article freaked me out. I could imagine my T starting that conversation when we first started working together, and me just shutting down. NOW, after 3 and a half years of working with T, maybe I could tolerate such a conversation...but I'm not sure. I actually had a strong physical and emotional reaction to reading the article, just in imagining my T using that approach on me.

Thank goodness there are so many different approaches to therapy and T's that are willing to tailor their practices to their clients needs.