This booklet is concerned with the area of clinical depression. Questions about clinical depression are briefly answered in an overview section and are examined in greater detail in the five chapters that follow. In chapter 1, depression is defined and various types of depression are identified. The origins of depression are explored in the second…

Considered the influence of family upon the individual and how family therapy affected behavior resulting from family interaction. (RK)

The effectiveness of four methods of group psychotherapy was compared: interpretive there-and-then, interpretive here-and-now, these treatments in combination, and problem discussion (attention placebo). Clients' experiences were less consistently positive in the here-and-now group and tended to be more consistently positive in the combined group…

Study explored the relationship between A-B therapist status and attitudes regarding sex roles for the mentally healthy adult male and female, attitudes that would appear to have profound influence on the conduct of psychotherapy. (Author)

The present study analyzed patient reported wants in a college-student population from the viewpoint of both patients and their therapist. (Author)

Carl Rogers re-examines and re-evaluates the importance of empathy in counseling today. (HMV)

While the notion of "training as a therapeutic treatment" is a popular one and a relatively new development in the field, the authors dip into the past to give a broader perspective on psychotherapy as an educational process in their extensive review of this literature. (Author)

Based on a PhD dissertation submitted by the author to the faculty of the Graduate School of Yale University.

Research supported in part by Grant MH-13651-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

The training of psychotherapists has been an ongoing process in psychiatry and clinical psychology. Recently, however, a growing demand to operationalize competence criteria to enable independent evaluation of therapists' skills in specifically defined psychotherapies has occurred. To examine this phenomenon, evaluation procedures were developed…

Whereas Gestalt Therapy purports to apply the principles of Gestalt psychology to psychotherapeutic situations, its emphasis upon the here-and-now and upon sensations as distinct from meanings is directly contrary to the spirit and assumptions of Gestalt theory as developed by Max Wertheimer and others. When Gestalt therapy does succeed, it is by…

This paper argues that assessments of the correlation between emotional problems and reading have been, for the most part, products of particular historical periods and have been influenced by particular psychological theories--theories that also influenced education and counseling. The paper first traces the history of research investigations…