A SYMPOSIUM OF MUSIC THERAPISTS WAS HELD IN JUNE 1964 TO PLAN A COMPREHENSIVE RESUME OF RESEARCH AND CLINICAL PRACTICE IN MUSIC THERAPY. FOLLOWING THE SYMPOSIUM, EACH PARTICIPANT SELECTED RESEARCH STUDIES APPROPRIATE TO HIS AREA AND CHOSE CLINICIANS TO PREPARE CLINICAL DESCRIPTIONS AND CASE STUDIES. PAPERS WERE ASSEMBLED BY EACH PARTICIPANT AND…

The results suggested that therapists relatively free of emotional conflict, yet willing to acknowledge internal discomfort when it is present, are better able to understand, accept, and respond nondefensively to their patients. (Author)

Clinical studies suggest that A and B therapist "types" may be associated with variation in the process and outcome of psychotherapy. Because of the proliferation of A-B scales, this study attempts to replicate and clarify several scale versions in order to justify their use in future studies. (Author/PC)

The present study examines how Ss perceive the same E-therapists. Results show that E-therapists are perceived differently depending on the technique used, and that perceptual differences are related to locus of control. (Author)

Results indicated that the client sees the therapist as being capable of healthier functioning than himself, and that the therapist sees himself as functioning more effectively than the client. (Author)

The results of this study suggest that the kind of counter-transference established in early interviews may be important to the out-come of psychotherapy. The successful therapists in these interviews were more dominant than their unsuccessful counterparts. (Author)

Examines concept of therapist centrality and how remaining fixed in this position can lead to therapeutic overinvolvement and possible impediment of therapeutic goals. Discusses specific aspects pertaining to this concept such as development, clinical indications, and implications, along with clinical and supervisory corrective techniques. (Author)

Using six different measures of therapist empathy employed in previous research, this study correlated the empathy measures with each other, with a measure of therapeutic process (depth of self-exploration), and with several outcome measures. (Author)

Describes the therapist as an active participant in the construction of the therapeutic system, explaining how the therapist constructs complex relationships within the evolving therapeutic process. Reevaluates the importance of the individual in the family as an agent of change and as a mediator of triangular relational messages. (Author/NB)

The group dynamics of therapeutic communities are very complex. This article describes how staff problems can negatively affect the program of a therapeutic community, and also relates the kinds of problems encountered in a therapeutic community to the problems encountered in rehabilitation programs in other settings. (Author)

The major result of the study is that the subjects' self experiencing increased significantly during the focusing periods even though the experimenter's empathy, warmth, and genuineness remained low. (Author)

Discusses use of alternate sessions, regularly scheduled meetings without the therapist, in analytic group therapy and proposes that opinions should be derived from a theoretical formulation, not in place of one. A decision against the use of alternate sessions is presented by delineating basics of psychoanalytic theory. (Author/BEF)

No significant effects of the diagnostic information on empathy were found. Certain clients consistently elicited a greater degree of empathy from Ss. Degree of empathic communication was found to be a relatively stable therapist characteristic. (Author)

In this interview, Dr. Irvin Yalom, director of the Adult Psychiatry Clinic at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses his beginnings as a group psychotherapist, current issues in group work, and the future of group work. (Author/TE)