ABSTRACT
Over a quarter of a century has now passed since Eysenck (1952) arrived at his much quoted conclusion that the available studies of the outcome of psychotherapy
fail to prove that psychotherapy, Freudian or otherwise, facilitates the recovery of neurotic patients. They show that roughly two-thirds of a group of neurotic patients will recover or improve to a marked extent within about two years of the onset of their illness, whether they are treated by means of psychotherapy or not.
