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WILLIAM H. LEVY, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;16(1):102-106.

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THIS STUDY attempts to delineate and interrelate variables relevant to the practice of psychotherapy. This then is a process study, wherein clinical data from psychotherapy sessions is examined in order to ascertain what transpires in the session. Strupp,^1,2 Alexander,³ and others have clearly indicated the need for such process work, wherein psychotherapeutic phenomena are delineated by studying the actual therapeutic occurrences.

Two variables were examined in this study: the "occurrence of psychotherapy" and the "communication of affect." Although there exists a sizable literature on the presence and detection of affect in interview material, the literature is void of studies which examine the occurrence of psychotherapy within an interview from a process point of view. The occurrence of psychotherapy seems always to be tied to outcome. It is assumed here that psychotherapy is not necessarily a process which always occurs whenever one person . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Psychiatry, University of Illinois Medical Center, Chicago.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 10, 1966.

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