SPECIFIC PURPOSES OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF T HERAPY - A COMPARISON OF TREATMENT PROCESSES IN HEURISTIC THERAPY, PSYCHOANALYSIS, BEHAVIOR-THERAPY AND GOAL-ORIENTED CLIENT-CENTERED PSYCHOTHERAPY

Based on single case analysis it has been investigated to what extent therapists engaged in four different forms of therapy (heuristic psych otherapy, behavioral therapy, psychoanalysis and goal-oriented client- centered psychotherapy) promote the clarification of motives and affec tive schemata and to what extent clients cooperate in such clarificati on processes. Significant differences were noted between the four form s of therapy in the way such clarification processes are dealt with: T herapists and clients tackle clarification problems most actively in g oal-oriented client-centered psychotherapy, followed by heuristic psyc hotherapy and psychoanalysis whereas these problems are practically un known in behavioral therapy.