It is felt that realization of the uniqueness of the individual has not been given sufficient emphasis in many systems of psychotherapy. The plea here is for the personalistic styled psychotherapy developed by Arnold A. Lazarus within which empirically efficacious techniques derived from all orientations are utilized where individually applicable.
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