Perceptions of the Optimally Integrated Person as a Function of Therapists' Characteristics
- 1 April 1970
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Perceptual and Motor Skills
- Vol. 30 (2) , 375-384
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pms.1970.30.2.375
Abstract
The central focus of this paper was to determine whether there was a consensus for the concept of mental health. Therapists from different professional orientations in a United States sample rank ordered their views of the optimally integrated person using a 20-paragraph personality questionnaire based on Murray's need system. Although Freudians were found to be more “conservative” in certain respects than Neo-Freudians and Sullivanians, greater agreement than disagreement was generally obtained. Variation in rank order as a function of age, length of experience and sex of therapist are discussed as are differences within a Czechoslovakian sample of therapists.Keywords
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