ABSTRACT
The group consisted entirely of experienced therapists and was relatively homogeneous, with mainly a psychoanalytic or modified psychoanalytic orientation. Opinions have often been expressed about similarities and differences in therapeutic attitudes and practices of members of the different professional disciplines who render psychotherapy. The psychologists stressed goals such as insight and self-acceptance, but the psychiatrists entertained the more modest goal of symptom relief. Psychiatrists were found to be concentrated in high Factor a patterns, with one-third endorsing a preference for psychoanalytically derived techniques couched in an impersonal relationship in which the therapist controlled the therapeutic course. I. N. Mensh and R. I. Watson surveyed psychiatric opinion at different experience levels about treatment goals and factors expected to change. Given a list of seventy personality terms, the psychiatrists were asked to indicate which changes would be expected in therapy, which characteristics would not change, and treatment goals.
