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Intervention manifested through the doctor-patient relationship in the therapeutic session will be defined in the answers to some basic issues.
How does intervention differ from activity, and what is its relation to the notion of passivity? Is intervention a single and/or continuing series of behaviors? How does the therapist's theoretical position regarding the nature of man, of therapy and its objectives affect his image of and attitudes toward intervention? How do all the foregoing determine the frequency and the timing of his intervention? What can the therapist do to prepare himself and his patient for recognizing and creating those conditions favorable to the effectiveness of his intervention, and for maintaining the momentum of the constructive results of such totally experienced optimal events? Is intervention a technique that can be taught, or can it be learned only on the ground of that matured clinical experience we call wisdom? What are the dangers of intervention and when must it be avoided? The above questions perhaps pose an even more fundamental one: Why a Round Table on this topic at this time?