Fathered by the child guidance movement, the American Orthopsychiatric Association is a catholic fellowship of all persons working in a common field. It is a vertical union welcoming into its membership persons of highly divergent techniques and ideologies. The result has been, not vapid neutralization, but cross-fertilization. Lively interest has been shown in the common factors at work in various schools of therapy. One leader, in this effort to winnow out the verbiage and find the kernels of understanding of the actual processes which occur in therapeutic contacts, has been Carl Rogers, Ph.D. With research training, well-rounded experience in a variety