About 50 years ago, Eysenck (1952) published his now (in) famous review of the effects of
adult psychotherapy. Boldly, he concluded that psychotherapy practices in vogue at that time …

▪ Abstract Psychotherapy is facing challenges that relate to the emergence of managed
health care, the possibility of a national health care system, and advances in biological …

To examine whether the results of effectiveness studies match those obtained for efficacy
studies on the same treatments, we conducted a focused review of the published treatment …

What do we wish to know about psychotherapy and its effects? What do we already know?
And what needs to be accomplished to fill the gap? These questions and more are explored …

We live in a society that is built on research. People in all cultures, at all times in history,
have always wanted to be able to do things better. In earlier centuries, much of this effort …

Despite the advances in psychotherapy outcome research, findings are limited because they
do not fully generalize to the way therapy is conducted in the real world. Research's clinical …

Generations of clinicians have valued Principles of Psychotherapy for its breadth of
coverage and accessibility and the author's ability to gather many elements into a unified …

This article discusses the fundamental need for lived experience perspectives in developing
and evaluating psychotherapies. The primary professional goal of clinical psychology is to …

In the first position paper of this chapter, Drew I. Westen argues, first, that patients treated in
the laboratory have not been adequately representative of patients treated in the community …

In the rising quest for evidence-based interventions, recent research often does not give
adequate attention to “nonspecific therapeutic factors,” including the effects of attention …