The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work (Paperback, 2)

Preface  1. History of  Medicine, Methods and Psychotherapy: Progress and Omissions  2. The Contextual Model: Psychotherapy as a Socially Situated Healing Practice  3. Contextual Model Versus Medical Model: Choosing a Progressive Research Programme  4. Absolute Efficacy: The Benefits of Psychotherapy Established by Meta-analysis  5. Relative Efficacy: The Dodo Bird Still Gets It  6. Therapist Effects: An Ignored by Critical Factor  7. General Effects: Surviving Challenges and Anticipating Additional Evidence  8: Specific Effects: Where Are They?  9. Beyond the Debate: Implications of the Research Synthesis for Theory, Policy, and Practice