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Psychotherapy Categories: A Spectrum Approach

Published Online:https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.124.12.1709

The increasingly numerous psychotherapy systems may best be ordered by use of a spectrum concept which arrays the therapies in accordance with the relative magnitudes with which they possess common elements. A prototype model is presented using the elements cognition, conditioning, and relationship. The system is applied to four currently prominent systems.

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