title: Toward a renewal of personology in psychotherapy research.
abstract: The articles by Elkins (D. N. Elkins, 2012, Toward a common focus in psychotherapy research, Psychotherapy, 49, pp. 450-454) and Hayes (S. C. Hayes, 2012, Humanistic psychology and contextual behavioral perspectives, Psychotherapy, 49, pp. 455-460) serve as a springboard for a call for a renewal of personological methods in studies of the psychotherapeutic relationship-methods that can investigate the emotional worlds of patient and psychotherapist as well as the relational systems constituted by the interplay between them. I believe only such idiographic research can illuminate the nexus of humanistic elements in which the psychotherapeutic process takes form. The beginnings of the author's own phenomenological-contextualist psychoanalytic perspective hark back to a series of personological studies of the subjective origins of psychoanalytic theories.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles, California, USA. robertdstolorow@gmail.com
authors.forename: Robert D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Stolorow
mesh_terms: D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006808:Humanism; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D012107:Research Design