Abstract
The psychotherapeutic world was once compartmentalized into a few dominant systems or schools such as psychoanalysis, behavior therapy and cognitive therapy, with little dialogue between them. The order was undermined by a proliferation of treatments, by repeated findings showing all systems to be about equally effective, and by a wave of skepticism in which leading figures of each school criticized their own system's major assumptions. This wave of self-criticism is reviewed, and current attempts to reorganize the field are described.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 171-184 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Psychotherapy |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1988 |
Externally published | Yes |