ABSTRACT
The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is devoted to the development and dissemination of research, as well as the integration of empirical, theoretical, and clinical knowledge in psychotherapy. A highlight of the SPR annual meeting is the presidential address, wherein the president delivers what many view as the most important presentation of their career. In Visions of Psychotherapy, Bernhard Strauss, Jacques Barber, and Louis Castonguay, three recent past presidents, compile the preceding 20 presidential addresses from SPR into a single volume. Then, the living presidents (19 of the 20) comment on how the visions they described in their addresses have developed over time.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |10 pages
Introduction
Forty Years of Research and Relationships: A Personal Perspective on the Past, Present, and Future of SPR
1
chapter 2|12 pages
Narration and Observation in Psychotherapy Research
Reporting on a 20-Year-Long Journey from Qualitative Case Reports to Quantitative Studies on the Psychoanalytic Process
1
(1992)
chapter 9|15 pages
Consensus in Psychotherapy Research and Practice
Where Have All the Findings Gone? (2000)
chapter 12|22 pages
Psychotherapy Research and Neurobiology (2003) 1
Challenge, Chance, or Enrichment?
chapter 17|23 pages
Resonating Minds
A School-Independent Theoretical Conception and its Empirical Application to Psychotherapeutic Processes (2008)
chapter 19|18 pages
Leaving “Splendid Isolation”
Why Psychotherapy Trainees and Researchers Should Communicate with Each Other (Unpublished)
1
chapter 20|17 pages
Psychotherapy, Psychopathology, Research, and Practice
Pathways of Connections and Integration (2011)
