HANDBOOK OF
PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION

HANDBOOK OF
PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION

HANDBOOK OF
PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION

ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE diverse approaches to psychotherapy have captured the imagination of mental health professionals for well over half a century. For example, Thomas French stood before the 1932 meeting
of the American Psychiatric Association and drew parallels between certain concepts of Freud and Pavlov; in 1936 Sol Rosenzweig published an article
that extracted commonalities among various systems of psychotherapy. Until recently, however, integration has appeared only as a latent theme (if not conspiratorially ignored altogether) in a field organized around discrete theoretical orientations. While psychotherapists secretly recognized that their paradigms did not adequately assist them in all they encountered in practice, a host of political, social, and
economic forces— such as professional organizations,
training institutes, and referral networks—kept them penned within their own theoretical school yards and
typically led them to avoid clinical contributions from
alternative orientations.

JOHN C. NORCROSS, PH.D.
AND
MARVIN R. GOLDFRIED, PH.D