ABSTRACT
It is difficult to define what psychotherapeutic factors are:
because of the intricate relation with complex and different compounds from human experience;
because of the many different names they have which we use to express them, such as therapeutic factors, cure factors, cure mechanisms, changing mechanisms. Different names for the same thing of course create confusion;
since literature talks about 175 factors, grouped in nine or twelve factors;
because as we work with scales and questionnaires about feelings and emotions, the evaluations from the patients will be, necessarily, subjective. Besides, many factors influence the result from the patient depending on therapeutic factors: the duration of the therapy, the level of the functionig of the person or type of group, the ideology of the therapist, besides the fact that these factors are interrelated. They do not occur or function separately.
