Visions in Psychotherapy Research and Practice Reflections from Presidents of the Society for Psychotherapy Research

The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is devoted to the development and dissemination of research, as well as the integration of empirical, theoretical, and clinical knowledge in psychotherapy. A highlight of the SPR annual meeting is the presidential address, wherein the president delivers what many view as the most important presentation of their career. In Visions of Psychotherapy, Bernhard Strauss, Jacques Barber, and Louis Castonguay, three recent past presidents, compile the preceding 20 presidential addresses from SPR into a single volume. Then, the living presidents (19 of the 20) comment on how the visions they described in their addresses have developed over time.

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 with Irene Elkin 1. Research on the Process of Change; Studying What People Actually Do in Sessions: Dream No Small Dreams For They Have No Power to Move the Hearts of Men Leslie S. Greenberg 2. Narration and Observation in Psychotherapy Research: Reporting on a 20-Year-Long Journey from Qualitative Case Reports to Quantitative Studies on the Psychoanalytic Process; From Narration to Observation and Back to Narration in Psychotherapy Research Horst Kachele 3. Every Psychopathology is a Gift of Love; Every Psychopathology is Still a Gift of Love Lorna Smith Benjamin 4. Pschemas, Psychopathology and Pscyhotherapy Research Leonard M. Horowitz 5. Finding Out How Psychotherapies Help People Change; How, Now, To Find Out How Psychotherapies Help People Change? Reflections of a Retired Psychotherapy Researcher David A. Shapiro 6. Dreams and Therapy; Dreams and Therapy: Revisited 15 Years Later Clara E. Hill 7. The Interpersonal Interior of Psychotherapy; The Interpersnal Interior of Psychotherapy, Revisited Pauls Crits-Christoph 8. Signs and Voices in Psychotherapy; Signs and Voices Fourteen Years On Williams B. Stiles 9. Consensus in Psychotherapy Research and Practice: Where Have all the Findings Gone?; Reaching Consensus Through Evidence-Based Principles of Change Marvin R. Goldfried 10. Collaboration in the New Millennium; Collaboration in Psychotherapy Research William E. Piper 11. Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design; Commentary on "Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design" Robert Elliot 12. Psychotherapy Research and Neurobiology: Challenge, Chance, or Enrichment?; Psychotherapy Research and Neurobiology: Challenge, Chance, or Enrichment? Are We Wiser Ten Years Later? Franz Caspar 13. Extending the Scientific Foundation of Psychotherapy Research Karla Moras 14. The Person of the Therapist; "The Person of the Therapist," Revisited Mark Aveline 15. Conceptualization and Treatment of Personality Disorders; Conceptualization and Treatment of Personality Disorders: 2005 to the Present John F. Clarkin 16. What We Have Learned From a Decade of Research Aimed At Improving Psychotherapy Outcome in Routine Care; Formally Tracking Patient Treatment Reduces Treatment Failure and Enhances Psychotherapy Outcomes: Commentary on My Presidential Address Michael J. Lambert 17. Resonating Minds: A School-Independent Theoretical Conception and Its Empirical Application to Psychotherapeutic Processes; Resonating Minds – Any Resonance Erhard Mergenthaler 18. Toward a Working Through of Some Core Conflicts in Psychotherapy Research Jacques P. Barber 19. Leaving Splendid Isolation - Why Psychotherapy Trainees and Researchers Should Communicate With Each Other Bernhard M. Strauss 20. Psychotherapy, Psychopathology, Research and Practice: Pathways of Connections and Integration Louis G. Castonguay 21. What the Future Holds for Psychotherapy Research Bernhard M. Strauss, Louis G. Castonguay, and Jacques P. Barber

Bernhard M. Strauss, PhD, is full professor of medical psychology and psychotherapy and head of the Institute of Psychosocial Medicine and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Jena, Germany. Jacques P. Barber, PhD, ABPP, is professor and dean of the Derner Institute of Advanced Studies in Psychology at Adelphi University. Louis G. Castonguay, PhD, is professor at the department of psychology at Penn State University.