Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Prehistory of Psychotherapy and Its Implications for Psychotherapy Science: Shamanism, Folk Medicine, Philosophy, and Religion

Chapter 3 Historical Paths in Psychotherapy Research

Chapter 4 The Philosophy of Psychotherapy Science: Mainstream and Alternative Views

Chapter 5 Psychotherapia Academica Universitatis: A Philosophical Argument for the Academic Discipline of Psychotherapy

Chapter 6 Interpretation as a Cognitive Instrument: Psychotherapy Science as an Attempt to Pool Paradigm-Based Systems of Interpretation

Chapter 7 Institutional Parameters of Psychotherapy Education as a Prerequisite for Systematic Psychotherapy Research

Chapter 8 Theory Building, Enriching, and Fact Gathering: Alternative Purposes of Psychotherapy Research

Chapter 9 Introduction to Psychotherapy Process Research

Chapter 10 Outlines of a General Theory of the Psychotherapy Process. The Clinical Exchange as Communicational Field: Theoretical Considerations and Methodological Implications

Chapter 11 The Relationship: How It Works

Chapter 13 Quantitative Approaches to Treatment Process, Change Process, and Process-Outcome Research

Chapter 14 Current Issues on Group Psychotherapy Research: An Overview

Chapter 15 The Process of Change in Psychotherapy: Common and Unique Factors

Chapter 16 Therapeutic Alliance and Alliance Ruptures and Resolutions: Theoretical Definitions, Assessment Issues, and Research Findings

Chapter 17 Positive Emotions in Psychotherapy: Conceptual Propositions and Research Challenges

Chapter 18 Psychotherapeutic Process from the Psychotherapist’s Perspective

Chapter 19 From a Psychoanalytic Narrative Case Study to Quantitative Single-Case Research

Chapter 20 Qualitative Methods in Psychotherapy Process Research

Chapter 21 Applications of Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Counseling and Psychotherapy Research

Chapter 22 Interpretation-Driven Guidelines for Designing and Evaluating Grounded Theory Research: A Constructivist-Social Justice Approach

Chapter 23 Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR): Methods for Conducting Psychotherapy Research

Chapter 24 Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy Process Research

Chapter 25 A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of Therapeutic Interaction: Toward an Observational Science of Psychotherapy Process

Chapter 26 Quantitative Psychotherapy Outcome Research: Methodological Issues

Chapter 27 Qualitative Methods in Psychotherapy Outcome Research

Chapter 28 Outcome Research on Disorder-Specific Treatments: The Case of Grief Therapy

Chapter 29 Outcome Research: Methods for Improving Outcome in Routine Care

Chapter 30 Psychotherapy Outcome Research and Neuroimaging