Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy 36 Systems ...

Author Robert A. Harper wrote in the Preface to this 1959 book, "This book is an attempt to present the main types of psychological treatment in clear, brief, and simple language... Readers who rigorously identify with any one of the many systems of psychotherapy will probably be disappointed with the author's treatment of their particular system... The first deficiency is intrinsic to any broad survey. The second weakness is an inescapable concomitant of an over-all objectivity and is somewhat comparable to the situation where a person holding no systematized religious convictions makes a survey of the various religions: what is lost in fine and mystical detail is more than compensated for by clarity of general perspective."