ABSTRACT
The researcher calls the therapist resistant because psychotherapy has grown as a craft, with its legend and lore, at a more rapid pace than it has as a science. Intervening psychotherapy was considered improbable because of the absence of psychiatrists in private practice in rural Minnesota. Treatment in the service was categorized as hospital routine, rest, and sedation or psychotherapy of any type or duration. Treatment of mild cases was usually limited to rest and sedation. Individual therapy was more often given to the more serious cases. Since real or imaginary baselines form some of the basic data of some of the most prominent evaluations of psychotherapy, it would be worth examining a few of the investigations that have focused specifically on improvement in the untreated. The therapist claims that therapy is effective because his experience tells him so, and he proceeds to describe a case.
