Some Current Issues in Psychotherapy
Some of the basic issues in psychotherapy today include: the nature of neurotic symptoms, the role of insight, emphasis on reconstructing the past versus readjusting to the present, the relationship between therapist and patient, activeness-passiveness of the therapist, distinctive techniques used, length of psychotherapy, total number of sessions and duration of a session, types of patients in relation to therapeutic approaches, permanence of improvement, and principal goal or purpose of psychotherapy.