ABSTRACT
The variety of process studies and their lack of unity may be an advantage at the present stage of our knowledge when it is desirable to provide the greatest possible number of explorations of the complex process of psychotherapy. Many researchers have restricted themselves to highly conventional variables, and others, having devised a way of categorizing behavior in psychotherapy, have reified their device as the process of psychotherapy. A growing body of research deals with those contributions of the therapist that C. R. Rogers considers to be the necessary and sufficient conditions for change in the client. Researchers can contribute greatly by studying patient-role learning and its relations with patient selection, therapeutic process, and outcome. There is a great deal of overlap between psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers in their attitudes toward the impersonality and patient-directedness of psychotherapy. Psychotherapy is predominantly a verbal process, and verbal processes have many dimensions.
