A Clinical Formulation of Conditions Conducive to Favourable Change in Psychotherapy.—Part I

Abstract

This paper is Part I of a three-part presentation attempting to assess, with the use of clinical material, those conditions which seem most to bring about favourable change in patients undergoing psychotherapy.

This includes an attempt to differentiate between two kinds of change. The first is that which occurs under the suggestive influence of the therapist and in which the change comes about as a result of the patient's incorporation of the therapist as a friendly and powerful transference figure.