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The paper offers a case study with a defective delinquent who was rehabilitated through intensive individual psychotherapy. The subject was selected by the staff of a large colony for male defectives as belonging to the group of "incorrigible" defective delinquents. The procedure of selection and the results of a large scale counseling and psychotherapy program have been described elsewhere. One to three therapeutic sessions of 20-50 minutes each were held weekly for 18 months except for vacation.

The article describes the application of a scale for the objective assessment of process or movement in psychotherapy and reports the degree of reliability and validity found in a preliminary investigation. The present scale represents a refinement of the original scale based upon further analysis and study of additional therapy protocols. It seems apparent that satisfactory interjudge reliability can be obtained in using the process scale in its present form, and that ratings derived from it bear a meaningful relationship to other measures of successful change in therapy.

The article presents information on a study that examines the criteria of progress in counseling and psychotherapy. The criteria that have been employed are as follows: (1) Non-return for treatment, (2) non-return for treatment plus evidence of vocational adjustment, (3) cessation or reduction of symptoms, (4) patients' own feelings, expressed during and after treatment, that they had been helped by the therapy and, (5) evidence of adjustment to life. It was concluded that there is a need of more adequate criteria and their measurement.

The article considers methods, indications and contraindications for making available psychological information in directive counseling and psychotherapy. The therapeutic efficacy of directive methods is limited by the same factors of clinical experience and judgment, which determine the therapeutic outcome of nondirective methods. One of the functions of the psychologist in counseling normal people is to impart reliable scientific in formation concerning the psychology of adjustment. It was found that irrespective of the causes for their maladjustment, most normal persons are able to utilize psychological information in making better adjustment to life.

This article focuses on non-directive psychotherapy. While in the beginning or initial contact the structuring is verbal, the most significant aspect of this process is the subtle experiencing by the client of the counselor's permissiveness and complete acceptance. He experiences too the limits of the situation and of the relationship. As he is able to accept and assimilate these limits, he experiences growth in independence and ability to follow through in his role as a responsible participant in the counseling.

This article discusses resistance and difficulties in psychotherapy of mental retardates. In the first place, since psychotherapy is largely based on verbal communication, it has been felt that with limited verbal understanding, especially at the interpretative level, no effective results can be achieved; the mental retardate would not understand what the score is, so that a change in his attitudes and his handling of his impulses could not be carried out. Psychotherapeutic specialties, particularly non-directive counseling and psychoanalysis, have reinforced the notion that the retarded, at least below the dull normal level, is not capable of profiting from techniques of reeducation and character change.