People who score high on the Behaviors modality scale are generally described as active, energetic, and busy. Recently, however, the beginnings of a reconciliation between these traditions have opened new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients. The author deeply appreciates the contributions of the following to the preparation of this study: John A. An accessible introduction to the rational of integrative therapy and how humanistic and psychoanalytic schools of thought came to meet somewhere in the middle. Therapists were recruited by mailing letters to the directors of eight clinics in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.

Carl Rogers describes that it makes an effective therapist if he is genuine, empathic and in unconditional positive regard towards the client (other schools than the psychoanalyst, rather use the word client instead of patient). Recommendations by Kahn about aspects such as self-disclosure, genuineness and making the client aware of the transference in the last chapter are of great, practical use. All scales of the BSI can be analyzed by their raw scores (which range from 0, indicating an absence of psychopathological symptoms, to 4, indicating high levels of psychopathological symptoms) or can be converted to scaled scores, with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions.McConnaughy 28 discussed in detail the impact of a therapist's personality style on the style, form, and content of the psychotherapy practiced.

It was expected, given the work of Mendelson and Geller, 9 that therapist–client dissimilarity (D″ 2 scores) would predict dropout rates. For years, two major schools of thought have strongly disagreed about what the nature of that relationship should be. As a therapist I feel much more comfortable with the transference factor during my sessions and know how to use it in my favor and the clients favor. Consistent with Cronbach and Glesser, 38 therapist–client difference values were computed by using SPI modality scores corrected for elevation and scatter (D″ 2), converting them essentially to z-scores.Strong support for this position comes from studies of length of psychotherapy as a function of client–therapist similarity.

I can only agree wholeheartedly with some of the reviews on the back cover 'the valuable integration of humanistic psychology and contemporary psychoanalysis brings into exquisite focus the understanding of the therapist-patient relationship as the essential ingredient of therapeutic change'; ' an unexpected pleasure, readable at all levels . The results of this study suggest that despite the therapist's theoretical orientation, and regardless of the specific techniques employed in psychotherapy, the match between the therapist's and client's modality orientation will have significant implications for psychotherapy outcome.It's not really written for professions who have their license because they should already know this stuff. Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the Indiana University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry, Section of Psychology, Indianapolis, Indiana. As he traces the history of the clinical relationship from Freud to the present, Kahn shows how the enmity between the humanists and the psychoanalyts limited their therapeutic effectiveness - and how their recent reconciliation has opened up exciting new possibilities for the way therapists relate to clients, pointing to a promising new period in the history of psychotherapy. Analyses of the relationship between client–therapist similarity on the Multimodal SPI and psychotherapy outcome confirmed the experimental hypothesis.

Highly lucid and yet simple explanation of the evolution of psychodynamic and person centred therapy, and a detailed examination of the pros and cons of each style.

According to this theory, certain therapist personality variables, differentiable through the administration of the Strong Vocational Interest Blank, could predict outcome efficacy with neurotic versus psychotic patients. There was some indication, based on the computed regression lines, that in the case of extreme dissimilarity, clients might even report increased symptoms after a course of psychotherapy. According to the theory and clinical observation of multimodal theory, 19 , 20 one's “dominant modality” (having the highest score on the Structural Profile Inventory [SPI]) will be the sphere of functioning in which one will be most likely to react, especially in times of stress. Talley PF, Strupp HH, Morey LC: Matchmaking in psychotherapy: patient–therapist dimensions and their impact on outcome.