Title: Psychotherapy, theory and research /
Authors: Mowrer, Orval Hobart,
Date: 1953
Publisher: Ronald Press Co.
Physical description: xviii, 700 pages : illustrations
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: 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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Psychotherapy.