ABSTRACT
The main chapters of this book provide the messages of 20 former presidents of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), all of whom represent very heterogeneous research traditions, theoretical perspectives, as well as biographical and cultural backgrounds. In their retrospective remarks, some presidents reached the conclusion that their recommendations for the future did not have the impact they had hoped for, but the majority believed that their work had some influence on subsequent studies in their own as well as other research labs. The goal of this concluding chapter is to offer a brief synopsis of these contributions, as well as to present some of our own predictions and/or recommendations for future research in psychotherapy.
