"The art of psychotherapy may consist largely of judicious and sensitive applications of a given technique, delicate decisions on when to press a point or when to be patient, when to be warm and understanding or when to be remote. The therapist structures the situation in bold relief so that the patient is forced to renounce the helping relationship or undergo change."                                                       Professor Hans Strupp, Ph.D.

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• "The Report is concise, well-written and balanced. Roberta Russell is an excellent expositor and teacher."                                                      Jerome Frank, M.D., Johns Hopkins University

• "Roberta Russell has performed an invaluable service to psychotherapists-and to the general public--in updating her classical survey of research in psychotherapy outcomes. Her new material is accurate, fair, and comprehensive. It contains information, controversies and surprises-as does psychotherapy itself."                                        Stanley Krippner, Ph.D., Saybrook Institute

• "…A masterful overview about the efficacy of psychotherapy."

• "Illuminating and interesting. A useful piece of work. Well put together and very instructive."

• "We agree with you that the actual conduct of psychotherapy can well be done by. intelligent, emotionally adept people with only moderate degrees of training."

• "I have read your Report on Effective Psychotherapy and find it a valuable and sensible approach to the problem.... I find that the suggestions that you make for a registry where therapists would make their values, training, methods, success, etc. a matter of open knowledge a very good idea."

• "At the macro-level... I'm glad you are getting some of this information out into the field and where it counts. You do a good job of identifying the critical issues... I especially like your reports of interviews that you had with a number of professionals in the field. It adds a great deal of power to what you've done."

• "Roberta Russell gives the general public and health professionals insights into psychotherapy at its best by defining and describing the exceptional character and complexities of effective treatments. Once again, Ms. Russell distinguishes herself by the scholarship that pervades this analysis."

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