Theoretico-methodico-methodological problems in current research in psychotherapy

The authors discuss theoretical and methodological problems of present-day psychotherapy research and try to arrive at a critical balance. They derive the task to find new forms of organisation of psychotherapy research in the GDR. In particular, they draw the attention to problems of the diversity of methods in psychotherapy and the study of group differences. They suggest to pay more attention than has been until now to questions of social capacity of learning in psychotherapy. Furthermore, aspects of the measurement of changes in individual cases in psychotherapy are dealt with.