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This study, published in 1963, is an impressive work collaborated on by two clinical psychologists from the Counseling Division of the Pennsylvania State University. They have presented in fair detail ten major systems of currently practiced psychotherapy and discussed them from the standpoint of three basic ideas; (1) “that psychotherapy should build on the notion of behavior change”; (2) “that psychotherapy should seek refinement through application of scientific procedures to the study of its theories”; and (3) “that psychotherapy should employ more basic behavior theory.”
Section 1 describes the approach to be used throughout the book of a method for comparing systems of psychotherapy. Section 2 describes the ten systems: Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis, Ego Analysis, The Learning Theory Psychotherapy of Dollard and Miller, Wolfe's Reciprocal Inhibition Psychotherapy, Adler's Individual Psychology, Otto Rank's Will Therapy, Carl Rogers' Client-Centered Therapy, Existential Analysis, Karen Horney's Character Analysis and Sullivan's Theory of Interpersonal Analysis. The final section compares the systems in regard to theories of normal behavior development and psychotherapeutic principles and procedures.
The authors have carefully described each of the theoretical systems in a common language. To the psychologist schooled in learning theory,