The topic, “Goals in Therapy,” implies consideration of therapy in its broadest terms and not merely goals in psychotherapy. We may accept psychotherapy as the most important tool in psychiatric treatment, but even this statement has to be limited if we consider the goals of treatment in disorders due to brain disease, such as general paresis or diseases of aging.

In literature there has been discussion in recent years of goals limited to psychotherapy, and there has been recognition and wide acceptance of the need to reevaluate these goals as one progresses with the treatment of an individual patient. Dependent on the therapist's personal philosophy and his theoretical background, and on current cultural attitudes and influences, goals will be formulated differently. This fact becomes obvious when one pursues the literature of