ABSTRACT
I approach the writing of this last chapter of the book with considerable trepidation. The various processes commonly included under the rubric of “psychotherapy” have been my major intellectual and professional preoccupation for more than a decade. However, despite my fairly intimate acquaintance with this field— and perhaps I should say because of it—I find the task of trying to communicate about it to a relatively neophyte audience very nearly overwhelming. I am not suggesting that I think there is anything arcane or mysterious about the process of inducing constructive personality change; on the contrary, my conviction is that it will turn out to be a quite straightforward matter. At this time, though, there is much that we do not know about it. Dispassionate and precise scientific inquiry is not easily achieved in an area in 260which questions about the fundamental nature of man are as deeply embedded in the texture of the problem as they are here.
