On the Basic Ingredients of Psychotherapy

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This article presents a parsimonious statement of essential conditions for psychotherapeutic change: (a) a helping relationship patterned after the parent-child relationship; (b) the creation of a power base from which the therapist influences the client through common psychological techniques, and (c) a client who has the capacity to profit from the experience. It is asserted that the full range of common influencing techniques is inevitably brought to bear on any psychotherapeutic relationship, and this indeed constitutes one of its defining characteristics. These conditions are equally applicable to psychoanalytic psychotherapy and behavior therapy.

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