Resilience: Successful Psychotherapies

Resilience: Successful Psychotherapies is a compact casebook that highlights patients who do well, rather than those who remain stuck. Olsson presents a set of distinctive individuals encountered in his clinical work, focusing on how their resilience-rather than any single technique-enabled them to navigate the difficult, often painful work of psychotherapy. These are not caricatures of "miracle cures"; none of the patients are severely psychotic or psychopathic, and their progress depends on candor, persistence, and the messy back-and-forth of real treatment.

In contrast to literature that fixates on pathology, this volume quietly argues that highlighting successes is itself a clinical intervention: it reminds therapists and patients that meaningful change is possible. Some readers may want more quantitative outcome data or randomized trials. Still, the narrative, phenomenological focus is precisely what will resonate with clinicians who value the craft dimension of psychotherapy. The book functions as both inspiration and reflective supervision, inviting practitioners to reconsider how they recognize and cultivate resilience in their own caseloads.