title: Ideological conflicts between clients and psychotherapists.
abstract: Clients come to psychotherapy with their own theories of how their problems are to be solved. These ideas fall into five categories: relationship rescue, will power, vindication, bromide, and spiritualistic theories. Many of the classic disputes which arise between clients and therapists can be attributed to differences in their theories of cure.
mesh_terms: D001290:Attitude; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009042:Motivation; D009769:Object Attachment; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011385:Projection; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept; D012931:Social Environment; D013140:Spiritualism