This presentation represents an attempt to assess, with the use of clinical material, those conditions which seem most to bring about favourable change in patients undergoing psychotherapy.
It comprises an assessment of the latter types of change according to their source in, 1) the patient, 2) the therapist, 3) the technique, 4) the therapeutic process. Factors stemming from each category are described, although it is recognized that there is a good deal of overlapping and that this division is for the purposes of convenience only. The conditions are complemented as far possible with clinical examples.
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