Visions in psychotherapy research and practice [electronic resource] : reflections from the presidents of the Society for Psychotherapy Research / edited by Bernhard M. Strauss, Jacques P. Barber, and Louis G. Castonguay.

This volume is a compilation of previous presidential addresses from the annual Society for Psychotherapy Research meetings. Following most of the addresses, is a commentary by the original author on how the visions they described in their addresses have since developed over time.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Bernhard M. Strauss, Jacques P. Barber, Louis G. Castonguay -- Introduction : forty years of research and relationships : a personal perspective on the past, present, and future of SPR / David Orlinsky (& Irene Elkin) -- Research on the process of change / Leslie S. Greenberg -- Narration and observation in psychotherapy research : reporting on a 20 year long journey from qualitative case reports to quantitative studies on the psychoanalytic process / Horst Kachele -- Every psychopathology is a gift of love / Lorna Smith Benjamin -- Pschemas, psychopathology and psychotherapy research / Leonard M. Horowitz -- Finding out how psychotherapies help people change / David A. Shapiro -- Dreams and therapy / Clara E. Hill -- The interpersonal interior of psychotherapy / Paul Crits-Christoph -- Signs and voices in psychotherapy / William B. Stiles -- Consensus in psychotherapy research and practice : where have all the findings gone? / Marvin R. Goldfried -- Collaboration in the new millennium / William E. Piper -- Hermeneutic single case efficacy design / Robert Elliott-- Psychotherapy research and neurobiology : challenge, chance, or enrichment? / Franz Caspar -- Extending the scientific foundation of psychotherapy research (unpublished) / Karla Moras -- The person of the therapist / Mark Aveline -- Conceptualization and treatment of personality disorders / John F. Clarkin -- What we have learned from a decade of research aimed at improving psychotherapy outcome in routine care / Michael J. Lambert -- Resonating minds : a school-independent theoretical conception and its empirical application to psychotherapeutic processes / Erhard Mergenthaler -- Toward a working through of some core conflicts in psychotherapy research (2009) / Jacques P. Barber -- Leaving "splendid isolation" : why psychotherapy trainees and researchers should communicate with each other (unpublished) / Bernhard M. Strauss -- Psychotherapy, psychopathology, research and practice : pathways of connections and integration (2011) / Louis G. Castonguay -- What the future holds for psychotherapy research / Bernhard M. Strauss, Louis G. Castonguay, Jacques P. Barber.