“…In one study, 52 such change techniques were studied (Mayer, 2004b). The techniques were sampled from a range of psychotherapies described in counseling and psychotherapy textbooks (Day, 2004;Ivey, D'Andrea, Ivey, & Simek-Morgan, 2002;Prochaska & Norcross, 2003;Scharf, 2004). A sample technique was "analysis of transference" (psychodynamic), and it was defined as bringing into consciousness a given pattern from an early relationship that is being repeated in the current psychotherapeutic relationship.…”