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Some Research Results and Speculations

HANS H. STRUPP, Ph.D.

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1960;3(3):219-231.

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In this paper I shall make an attempt to present some of the thinking which has gone into our research program in psychotherapy, briefly allude to some of the results we have obtained, and dwell at some length upon questions that have continued to engage our attention. If it is true that one of the fruits of scientific work is the ability to ask better questions, I feel I have made some progress.

Some years ago I became interested in the study of psychotherapeutic techniques and found that very little empirical research had been done on the problem. Not only were there few published investigations on the subject but there were also few systematic expositions about psychotherapeutic technique, not excluding the psychoanalytic literature. Apart from Freud's well-known papers on technique very little attention had been given to the problem in print (Fenichel, 1941), and even considering the fecundity . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Chapel Hill, N.C.

From the University of North Carolina, School of Medicine.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication April 5, 1960.

The writing of this paper and the research on which it is based were supported by Research Grant M-2171 from the National Institute of Mental Health, Public Health Service.

Delivered as the Third Annual Lasker Memorial Lecture at the Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training of Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, April 5, 1960.

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