Research classic: ''Some myths of psychotherapy research and the search for a paradigm'': Revisited

Journal/Book: Psychother Res. 1995; 5: 72 Spring Street, New York, NY 10012. Guilford Press. 91-101.

Abstract: The article considered and refuted three myths prevalent within the psychotherapy literature of the time: the patient and therapist uniformity assumptions; the assumption of spontaneous remission of psychoneurotic disorders (as promulgated by Eysenck, 1952); and the belief that theoretical formulations of the time provided adequate paradigms for guiding psychotherapy research. The author proposed a new research paradigm (advocating increased use of ANOVA factorial designs) that requires specification of patient change variables (dependent variables), and of relevant patient, therapist, and intervention dimensions (independent variables), so that the field can begin to assess the central theoretical and research question: Which therapist behaviors are more effective with which type of patients?

Note: Article DJ Kiesler, Virginia Commonwealth Univ, Richmond, VA 23284 USA

Keyword(s): PRIZES; ISSUES; WON

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