ABSTRACT
Psychotherapy Research as a field of institutionalized research activity has been made visible by establishing the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) in 1968. For many years it was tied up to the Anglo-American world. With the establishment of a European-continental chapter, a growing awareness of research activities outside led to the 1987 meeting in Ulm which paved the way to integrate the European continent into the self-concept of SPR. Reporting on the work of the Ulm group allows for an overview on a 20-year-long journey from qualitative case reports to quantitative studies on the psychoanalytic process, which entails the notion of narration versus observation.
