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The Personal Questionnaire as a Method of Assessing Change during Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

R. F. Hobson  and
D. A. Shapiro
R. F. Hobson
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
D. A. Shapiro
Affiliation:
The Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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A cogent interpretation of the apparent average ineffectiveness of psychotherapy (e.g. Eysenck, 1960) has been proposed by Bergin (1966) and taken up by Truax and Carkhuff (1967). This explanation is based upon the suggestion that some therapeutic encounters harm patients and hence beneficial effects are cancelled out when the average results of large groups are considered. Rather than beginning with large miscellaneous samples treated in an unspecified variety of ways, our research programme involves detailed experimental and correlational studies of the therapy of a small number of patients with similar diagnoses. This paper is limited to a preliminary study of assessment of change in psychotherapy by means of the Personal Questionnaire (PQ,), (Shapiro, 1961, 1969).

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 117 , Issue 541 , December 1970 , pp. 623 - 626
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1970 

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