ABSTRACT
The author shows that the power for change in therapy lies primarily in the realm of the client, and secondarily, in the realm of the therapeutic relationship and the psychotherapist as a human being. People have been trans-theoretical and integrative, often belonging to such organizations as the Society for Psychotherapy Research and the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration. The author interests in basic developmental processes and their relevance for psychotherapy were encouraged by Dale Harris, David Palermo, Don Ford, Hugh Urban, and Richard Lerner. He remembers how impressed his was with the power and persuasion of Keller's programmed self-instructional (PSI) laboratory courses in animal behaviour. Stanford had regrettably discontinued its clinical programme after the graduation of some creative scientist-practitioners and scholarly researchers, including Gerald Davison, Donna Gelfand, Don Hartmann, John Masters, David Rimm, and Ted Rosenthal.
