ABSTRACT
Morrison's chapter is interesting in which he resolved a conflict between his personality and behaviourally inspired psychotherapy. Thome's chapter is a fascinating account of therapist being challenged to extend the concept 'core therapeutic conditions' which are central to practice of person-centred therapy. Rowan's chapter shows how one therapist responded to a situation where a potentially productive intervention conflicted with a centrally held principle of therapy. Butt and Bannister's contribution traces the gradual shift that Butt made from being a behaviour therapist to becoming a personal construct therapist. Wessler, formerly Director of Training at the Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy in New York, traces the development of his increasing disenchantment with RET. Morrison's research on emotive-reconstructive therapy was initiated after he developed therapeutic approach, and Lazarus, who argues that therapeutic procedures need to be empirically based, relies upon the research findings of others.
