Personality integration and successful outcome in individual psychotherapy.
Successful and unsuccessful outcomes in 24 therapy dyads were analyzed according to client-therapist personality integration (pi). Results indicated that successful outcome was most likely to occur when both client and therapist were high pi. Failure was most frequent among mixed sex dyads with discrepant pi differences. Implications for effective client-therapist matching were discussed.
D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012737:Sex Factors