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"The ultimate nature of psychotherapy, its inner structure and the details of its functioning, is one of psychiatry's most interesting problems. Although much has been written on theories of the action of psychotherapy, agreement has not been universal on the exact nature of this complicated transaction. The analysis of the meaning of psychotherapy presented in this volume differs from the usual clinical one in that it proceeds on the basis of a logical analysis. The writer is aware of his temerity in approaching the emotional relation of psychotherapy in a way that is primarily ratiocinative. This approach was stimulated in the writer by an acquaintance with the polyglot of therapeutic methods which forms the history of psychotherapy and by acquaintance with therapists of many backgrounds, attitudes and types of training and methods of operation. As a Lumper, the present writer will try in this book to distill a "universal" out of the myriad worlds of psychotherapeutic method. For this, he has only himself to blame, and for the thesis presented, he naturally assumes sole responsibility. Several of the chapters were read in the form of papers at psychiatric meetings, notably that of the American Psychiatric Association, Chicago, 1957; the Santa Clara-Monterey Psychiatric Society, San Jose, California, 1957; and the joint meeting of the Northern and Central California Psychiatric Societies, Yosemite, California, 1960"--

Psychotherapy.

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Psychotherapy --- Psychiatry

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Group psychotherapy.

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The content of this volume represents the proceedings of the Second Conference on Research in Psychotherapy held in 1961. The book is organized according to three conference topics: 1. Research problems relating to measuring personality change in psychotherapy. The emphasis here rested on a thorough discussion of relevant variables in patients so as to allow significant assessments of change as a result of therapy; techniques for measuring personality change; selection of patients in terms of predictor variables. 2. Research problems relating to the psychotherapist's contribution to the treatment process. Questions to be dealt with under this heading included: ways of evaluating the contribution of the therapist's personality and attitudes upon progress and outcome of therapy; effects of variations in therapist behavior upon the process of therapy. 3. Research problems relating to the definition, measurement, and analysis of significant variables in psychotherapy, such as transference, resistance, etc. The purpose here was to bridge the gap between dynamic events observed in the clinical situation and their assessment and measurement by objective means. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).

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