This article argues that psychotherapy practitioners and researchers should be informed by
the substantive body of qualitative evidence that has been gathered to represent clients' own …

We propose that psychotherapy researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners can better
understand the process and action of psychotherapy if they are acquainted with the types of …

This article aims to explore the role that clients play in research and how their experiences
can contribute to psychotherapy process research. Following a broad outline of the findings …

Recent decades have seen a significant increase in the number of studies exploring client
perspectives on, and experiences of, psychotherapy. The present article provides a practice …

This article documents the evolution of qualitative psychotherapy research over the past 3
decades. Clients' and therapists' accounts of their experiences in psychotherapy provide a …

Aim: Much research has been undertaken to identify significant events and change
processes in psychotherapy. Most of these studies use categories and concepts consonant …

The aim of this study was to explore how former psychotherapy patients characterize “good
outcome” after having completed treatment that they described as successful, in the sense …

This article discusses the fundamental need for lived experience perspectives in developing
and evaluating psychotherapies. The primary professional goal of clinical psychology is to …

Psychotherapy is widely accepted as a legitimate and beneficial healing practice in the
United States and in many other countries. This book acquaints the emerging professional …

A growing number of psychotherapy studies using qualitative approaches to research call
for the cumulative assessment of findings. Although summaries of qualitative research …