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Psychotherapy : theory and research / Orval Hobart Mowrer.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mowrer, Orval Hobart, author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Psychotherapy--Research.
Psychotherapy.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 700 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
New York : Ronald, [1953]
Summary:
21 collaborators have contributed 19 chapters to this textbook devoted to a discussion of theories of personality, neurosis, and psychotherapy, and to research studies of the process of psychotherapy. 18 chapters are original papers and are abstracted separately in this issue. One chapter by Dollard and Mowrer on the Discomfort-Relief Quotient is reprinted. There is extensive literature review and the bibliographies for the separate chapters are gathered together in one 21-page bibliography. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Contents:
Historical and philosophical presuppositions for understanding therapy / Rollo May
Some directions and end points in therapy / Carl R. Rogers
Neurosis and psychotherapy as interpersonal processes: a synopsis / O. Hobart Mowrer
Collaboration of client and counselor / William G. Perry and Stanley G. Estes
Some observations on psychotherapy and the learning process / Edward Joseph Shoben
Neurosis, psychotherapy, and two-factor learning theory / O. Hobart Mowrer
Structural problem in schizphrenia: therapeutic implications / Milton Wexler
Psychotherapy and its public health implications / Joseph M. Bobbitt and John A. Clausen
Research perspectives in client-centered therapy / Julius Seeman and Nathaniel J. Raskin
Method of measuring tension in written documents / John Dollard and O. Hobart Mowrer
Further studies utilizing the discomfort-relief quotient / O. Hobart Mowrer and Leonard S. Kogan
Quantitative studies on the role of therapists' feelings toward their patients / Fred E. Fiedler
"Q technique" description, history, and critique / O. Hobart Mowrer.
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