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The article investigates the feelings of therapists in the therapeutic process. This study was concerned with what therapists typically feel in psychotherapy sessions, what the structure of these feelings was, and how these feeling clusters were related to the patient's experience. In general, salient therapist feelings were role-syntonic. There were nine dimensions of therapist affective experience and some of these were related to patient experiences. The value of these relationships as practical cues and for a greater understanding of psychotherapy process are discussed.

The article determines patients' conceptions of mental hospital personnel from six different disciplines; namely, physicians, nurses, psychologists, activity therapists, social workers, and psychiatric aides. Social workers were the most distinctive profession; psychologists and nurses were least distinctive. It cannot be determined from these data alone whether psychologists and nurses lack a distinct conceptual identity, or whether they have in common a distinct identity which represents the most important reference point for patients' judgments of staff.

This article focuses on the effects of two methods of response in a quasi-therapeutic situation. In the initial experiment 8 therapists, all second and third year psychiatric residents, viewed two films which were reproductions of actual initial interviews with patients seeking psychotherapy. Both of the films had eight 30-second stopping places where the viewer was asked either, under Procedure W, to write what he would say to the patient at this time if he were interviewing him, or, under Procedure S, to speak his comment into a tape recorder.

The article evaluates the relationship of therapists' ratings of patients to duration of stay in therapy, and appraises the effect of clinical experience on these relationships. Fifteen rated variables were utilized and compared with duration of stay in outpatient psychotherapy. The most striking finding of this study is the moderate to high reliability of ratings of experienced judges on therapeutic assets of therapy candidates and the failure of these judgments to relate to actual duration of stay in psychotherapy.