ABSTRACT
It has been said that there is one requisite clinical competency to which all other clinical competencies are anchored. That requisite competency is a theoretical framework or map “of personality, psychopathy, and therapeutic process” (Binder, 2004, p. 26). First, therapists need a theoretical understanding of the normal process of development and functioning, that is, a theory of personality. Second, therapists need a theory of how functioning goes awry and becomes maladaptive, that is, a theory of psychopathology. Third, therapists need a theory of how maladaptive processes can be changed, that is, a theory of therapeutic processes.
