Therapists’ therapies: The relation between training therapy and patient change in long-term psychotherapy and psychoanalysis

“Not a little Mickey Mouse thing”: How experienced counselling psychologists describe the significance of personal therapy in clinical practice and training. Some results from an interpretative phenomenological analysis

“…The research literature on personal therapy may be divided into four types of studies (Macran & Shapiro, 1998): surveys of therapist satisfaction with personal therapy (e.g., Orlinsky et al, 1999;Pope & Tabachnik, 1994); outcome studies, comparing therapeutic outcomes for therapists who have or have not received personal therapy (Sandell et al, 2006; for a review, see Macran & Shapiro, 1998); experimental outcome studies, examining therapist responses to analogue psychotherapeutic situations (e.g., McDevitt, 1987;Strupp, 1955Strupp, , 1973; and process studies, looking at within-session client-therapist interactions (e.g., Wogan & Norcross, 1985;Wheeler, 1991).…”

Effects of graduate clinicians' personal therapy on therapeutic alliance

“…Norcross (2005) summarizes these surveys to suggest that experience of personal therapy has positive effects on the therapy relationship, specifi cally in facilitating empathic ability. Sandell et al, (2006) also examined this issue and found a curvilinear relationship between the lengths of the therapist's training therapy and the patient's improvement. Their results showed that patients of therapists with long psychoanalyses (equal or greater than 13 years) for training therapies showed the least improvement in treatment and even had nonsignifi cant deterioration.…”

An individual differences perspective on change in psychotherapy: The case of health care utilization

“…However, evidence is accumulating for the variability among therapists as well (Beutler, 1997;Blatt, Sanislow, Zuroff, & Pilkonis, 1996;Crits-Christoph & Mintz, 1991;Kim, Wampold, & Bolt, 2006;Lafferty, Beutler, & Crago, 1989;Lambert, 1990;Luborsky et al, 1986;Luborsky, McLellan, Diguer, Woody, & Seligman, 1997;Luborsky, McLellan, Woody, O'Brien, & Auerbach, 1985;Wampold & Brown, 2005). Also, two studies using LC regression analysis reported large between-therapists differences (Sandell et al, 2006a(Sandell et al, , 2006b. Obviously, in this study, as for most psychotherapy studies, there was a partial confounding between patients and therapists, because each patient had only one therapist, although each therapist may have had more than one patient, and there was no random selection between the two.…”

“…Of the therapists, 95% claimed to be ''rather strongly'' or ''strongly'' oriented toward a psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theoretical position, and 11% claimed also to share ''strongly'' or ''rather strongly'' an eclectic position. Further details Individual differences in change during therapy 691 on the treatment providers are given in Sandell et al (2006aSandell et al ( , 2006b.…”