13 participants (33.9 yr., college students, 11 women, 2 men) in 8 2-hr., 20-min. didactic self-help seminars were compared with 13 individual clients (35.9 yr., college students, 10 women, 3 men) engaged in 15 sessions of imagery psychotherapy (emotive-reconstructive therapy) to assess the comparative effectiveness of each treatment on a measure of anxiety. Analysis indicated the superior effect of therapy over self-help instruction in reducing the trait of anxiety.
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