Dysfunctional patterns in interpersonal interactions can be identified using the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems. Problems in the Exploitable octant improve most frequently. Problems in the Vindictive, Cold, and Dominating octants improve more slowly. Different attachment styles were found to correspond to different types of interpersonal…

Although the subject has been debated and examined for more than 3 decades, it is still not clear whether all psychotherapies are equally efficacious. The authors conducted 7 meta-analyses (with a total of 53 studies) in which 7 major types of psychological treatment for mild to moderate adult depression (cognitive-behavior therapy, nondirective…

This article profiles Jacob Levy Moreno, the founder of this journal. He was born in 1889 in Romania, but moved to Vienna with his parents when he was four years of age. By all accounts, Moreno as a child was brilliant, spontaneous, creative and, presaging his later successes, was fascinated by relationships, first with his brothers and sisters,…

Psychological intervention with the bereaved can provide critical assistance to individuals, families, and communities contending with the loss of significant others. In the organizational paradigm of the Two-Track Model of Bereavement, the outcome of both successful and problematic mourning are manifest along two distinct but interrelated tracks…

Explores whether self-disclosure in group psychotherapy produces better group outcome. Although the expected positive relationship between the two variables was found, results also indicate a need for caution in postulating a link between self-disclosure and improvement. (BP)

The results of this study suggest that the kind of counter-transference established in early interviews may be important to the out-come of psychotherapy. The successful therapists in these interviews were more dominant than their unsuccessful counterparts. (Author)

This study showed that older males were the preferred therapists in all cases except for women with personal problems who tended to prefer older women. Preferences seemed to be related to high expectancies on therapy relevant" variables, especially understanding", rather than to similarity to the students. (Author/KJ)

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology, Austin, November 1968. Research supported by a grant from NIH to the Institute for Juvenile Research.

Within the literature on group counseling and psychotherapy, the structure of therapeutic group processes is frequently described in terms of stages of the group process. Numerous group stages have been proposed to describe the social interaction and change in social interaction that is characteristic of group therapy. This study examined the…

Believes the therapeutic situation that offers the greatest awareness with the least amount of dehumanization is a synthesis of the gestalt and the existential humanistic (EH) orientations. Considers the relationship and possible synthesis of the existential and gestalt positions. (Author/RK)

Establishes a conceptual approach to the etiology of psychological trauma. Reviews the literature and includes a case study to exemplify how the disruption of social relationships can interfere with the normal functioning of personality in the posttraumatic state until an appropriate therapeutic intervention or experience occurs. (RJM)

Developed method for aggregating psychodynamic formulations of independent clinicians. Panels of clinicians observed videotaped interviews of patients and wrote individual formulations which were combined into consensual formulation. Other clinical raters read each consensual formulation and judged whether each problem was apt to be distressing…

Presents interview of psychotherapist Albert Ellis who discusses his early days, the women in his life, and his personal characteristics and offers personal reflections on his professional career. (Author)

Author attempted to enlighten the public to the pitfalls of psychotherapy and put the burden of credibility upon the psychotherapist to show that their work is better than no treatment at all. (RK)

Presented before the cobined session of the Section on Athletic Medicine and the Section on Mental Health, American College Health Association, Forty-sixth Annual Meeting, Minneapolis Minnesota, May 2, 1968.