[Empirical research in psychotherapy. Recent studies in the English-language literature]

Empirical psychotherapeutic research has much progressed in the last teen years. In that field the american-english workers afford a great number of meaningfull studies and papers. Very definite experimental work has been made in subjects like therapeutic situation, therapist ways, patient's reactions and outcome facts or content analysis studies, in assessment of results and processes. In that paper an approach is made of: 1 degree psychotherapeutic research general trends, 2 degrees results from various theroretical orientations: psychoanalytic, behaviour therapy, Rogers or Balint, 3 degrees evaluation of main factors for therapeutic sessions, 4 degrees special fields like brief psychotherapies or group therapies.