This book transcends the therapy wars and advances a mature peace in which effective psychotherapy and suffering clients are the victors. Preface, Introduction, Empirical Foundations, The Empirical Case for the Common Factors in Therapy: Quantitative Findings, Qualitative Inquiry in Psychotherapy: Research on the Common Factors, The Common Factors: Extra-Therapeutic Change and the Therapeutic Relationship and Expectancy and Therapeutic Technique, The Client as a Common Factor: Clients as Self-Healers, The Therapeutic Relationship, Hope as a Psychotherapeutic Foundation of Common Factors and Placebos and Expectancies, The Contribution of Models and Techniques to Therapeutic Efficacy: Contradictions Between Professional Trends and Clinical Research, Special Applications of the Common Factors, Common Psychosocial Factors in Psychiatric Drug Therapy, Common Factors of School-Based Change, Implications of the Common Factors for Reimbursement Policy and Practice, Index.