title: Introduction to Psychotherapy: Common Clinical Wisdom (2nd Edition)
author: Randolph B. Pipes
description: This comprehensive book is built on a scholarly foundation and combines an integrative perspective with practical suggestions about psychotherapy. It emphasizes the elements of counseling which are common to many theoretical orientations, sometimes referred to as "clinical wisdom."<P>Chapters new to this edition are Multicultural Counseling; a new overview of Brief Therapy; expanded coverage of ethical and legal issues, and completely revised and updated references.<P>For counselors in psychology and psychotherapy.
zlib_text: The	Essence	of	an	Effective	Therapeutic
  Process
  MAX	HAMMER
  
  e-Book	2015	International	Psychotherapy	Institute
  From	The	Theory	and	Practice	of	Psychotherapy	With	Specific	Disorders	by	Max	Hammer,	Ph.D.
  Copyright	©	1972	by	Max	Hammer,	Ph.D.
  All	Rights	Reserved
  Created	in	the	United	States	of	America
  
  Table	of	Contents
  CONCLUSIONS
  REFERENCES
  www.freepsychotherapybooks.org
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  The	Essence	of	an	Effective	Therapeutic	Process
  In	this	final	section	I	would	like	to	summarize	the	basic	material	in	this
  book	in	the	form	of	presenting	my	conclusions	in	regard	to	what	I	feel	to	be
  the	essential	aspects	of	an	effective	therapeutic	process.	This	is	an	extremely
  difficult	 thing	 to	 do	 because	 one’s	 definition	 of	 an	 effective	 therapeutic
  process	very	much	depends	upon	how	one	defines	a	successful	therapeutic
  outcome.	As	the	reader	is	probably	already	very	much	aware,	there	is	very
  little	 consensual	 validation	 or	 agreement	 in	 regard	 to	 a	 definition	 of
  successful	 therapeutic	 outcome	