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Virginia Patterson, MA; Howard Levene, MD; Louis Breger, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1971;25(2):161-167.

Abstract
The project undertook to teach two forms of brief therapy (Psychoanalytic and behavioral to mental health trainees and to compare treatment outcome as judged by the patients, their therapists, and experienced clinicians working from case records. A group of eight trainees were divided between the two teaching programs with a crossover at midyear that permitted training and treatment effects to be evaluated in counterbalanced design. Results indicated that patients rated themselves more improved immediately following brief behavior therapy than following brief psychotherapy. The finding is discussed with reference to the learning task for therapists and patient expectations. Therapist preferences for the two treatment orientations were studied in relation to therapist personality characteristics. Behavior therapy evoked a more distinct cluster of attitudes and personality dispositions than did psychotherapy.

Author Affiliations
San Francisco

From the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, the California Department of Mental Hygiene, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of California School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 9, 1970.

The opinions or conclusions stated in this paper are those of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as necessarily representing the policy of the Langley Porter Institute or the California Department of Mental Hygiene.

Reprint requests to Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute, 401 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco 94122 (V. Patterson).

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