Inside Psychotherapy: Nine Clinicians Tell How They Work and What They are Trying to Accomplish. Adelaide Bry (Ed.). New York:  Basic Books, 1972.  162 pp.

This book is intended to help individuals seeking treatment and prospective psychotherapy students in their efforts to distinguish among diverse therapeutic disciplines available today. Adelaide Bry, who is a psychotherapist,

suggests that it is unlikely that an individual can select only one beneficial method of treatment, she herself having enjoyed three. She engages in vivid you-are-there dialogues with leading practitioners of psychoanalytic, Jungian, Frommian, Gestalt, behavioral, family, group, encounter group, and nude marathon therapy. These dialogues, far more engagingly than formal essays might, convey the different emotional atmospheres between therapist and Bry and bring out answers to such questions as who might undergo what treatments, what they might experience, for how long, and at what cost, and what they might optimally hope to accomplish.

Bry selected men with equivalent credentials and asked each what his aims and methods were and how he might approach treatment of her airplane flight phobia. Unfortunately, because of the order of presentation, because of the personality differences among her interviewees, who ranged from the scholarly to the charismatic only roughly in proportion to the necessity for this in treatment, and because of Bry's uneven personal involvement, her intended impartiality went somewhat askew. Even so, the reader can consolidate what he learns by employing Lewis R. Wolberg's very balanced eclectic perspective in the introduction to the book.

Wolberg reminds the reader that he should not expect complete or uniform impartiality from the therapists. He offers some continua by which various methods might be measured, such as degree of leader participation, profundity of change aimed for, and amount of immediate impulse gratification. He indicates ways in which patients differ, too— in their life situations, the seriousness of their disabilities, and their readiness for change. He associates some kinds of treatment methods with s