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The Essence of Psychotherapy

Delivered as an address to the Academy of Medicine, Toronto, Canada on December 4, 1980

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Stanley E. Greben
Stanley E. Greben*
Affiliation:
Mount Sinai Hospital Professor of Psychiatry; Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, 600 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1X5, Canada
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Summary

Psychotherapy and the changes it produces can be understood in terms of simple basic essentials. Intensive and longstanding clinical experience demonstrates its therapeutic potency. Those factors in the therapist which are most important in leading to change are described. The significance of the therapeutic relationship is discussed, as well as the necessity of its candid and intensive examination during the therapy, if marked change is to occur. What is not psychotherapy is also explored.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 138 , Issue 6 , June 1981 , pp. 449 - 455
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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