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This intriguing volume offers the latest developments in psychotherapy process research and suggests implications for clinical practice. It is unique in that equal weight is given to both the paradigmatic and the narrative approaches to explanation. The contributions exemplify relatively "pure" uses of either approach as well as the joint application of each in the same research endeavor. Each mode is seen to be especially suited to explaining a particular aspect of the overall therapeutic process: consequently, the question arises as to whether or not the two approaches can be integrated. At various points throughout the volume, and particularly in the concluding chapter, this question is addressed in terms of the implicit assumption supporting each approach.

This intriguing volume offers the latest developments in psychotherapy process research and suggests implications for clinical practice. It is unique in that equal weight is given to both the paradigmatic and the narrative approaches to explanation. The contributions exemplify relatively "pure" uses of either approach as well as the joint application of each in the same research endeavor. Each mode is seen to be especially suited to explaining a particular aspect of the overall therapeutic process: consequently, the question arises as to whether or not the two approaches can be integrated. At various points throughout the volume, and particularly in the concluding chapter, this question is addressed in terms of the implicit assumption supporting each approach.