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A central value of the formal follow-up study, whether in a research or in a straight clinical context, is in the light thrown on the issue of whether any favorable changes in life functioning that take place during the treatment process, and in the context of the ongoing therapeutic relationship, actually turn out to endure once the patient is removed from the intensity of the therapeutic interactional process, and is again living life in its more usual context. (I have, of course, just indicated at the end of the preceding chapter how, at least for the PRP patients, that more usual life context was now anchored within a wider psychological helping world