Psychodynamic personality characteristics of psychotherapists in relation to therapy success

In the Berlin psychotherapy study data were collected not only from the pat ients but also from the therapists. Thus, the influence of personality vari ables of the therapists on the multidimensionally registered therapy succes s could be studied. To this end a nonlinear k-sets canonical analysis was a pplied resulting in a sample-specific optimal scaling. The relationship pat tern of the two sets of variables found was satisfactory as regards the int ernal criteria of the programme as well as its clinical meaningfulness. The results can be used in similar studies for specifying therapist-related hy potheses.