ABSTRACT

The year of the millennium has provided us with a special occasion to celebrate the birth, development, and achievements of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), whose annual meetings began some 31 years ago. Each year, the president starts the conference with an initial address, which has the potential to set a certain tone. Since 1991, each of the Presidential Addresses has been published the following spring in the Society’s journal, Psychotherapy Research. Thus, there is a complete record of the past 10 Addresses. In chronological order, they include the Addresses of Greenberg (1991), Kächele (1992), Benjamin (1993b), Horowitz (1994), Shapiro (1995), Hill (1996a), Grawe (1997), Crits-Christoph (1998), Stiles (1999a), and Goldfried (2000).