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Historical Overview

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Issues in Psychotherapy Research

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The objective of this introductory chapter is to provide a historical overview of the major theoretical, conceptual, and methodological issues and trends in psychotherapy research. The chapter is intended to illustrate the issues rather than detailing them exhaustively. However, the reader should find in-depth reviews of the substantive issues in the remaining chapters of the text. For purposes of this review, historical trends will be divided into three decades: 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Although these demarcations are admittedly artificial, they do provide boundaries that facilitate description and understanding of the issues in psychotherapy research over the past 30 years.

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