ABSTRACT
Outside the mainstream, for some forty years methods such as Encounter have claimed to free ‘normal’ people from social alienation, and forms of counselling (p. 90) and self-help (p. 82) are developing for many sorts of human problem and predicament. One no longer has to be labelled a psychiatric patient in order to be helped. Finally, we will finish this outline of the practice of psychotherapy by, first, considering some of the issues of suiting the therapy to the patient in discussing selection, and by, second, considering the data about process and outcome of therapies in a section on outcome and research.
