In memoriam: Hans H. Strupp (1921-2006).

Hans Hermann Strupp, who deeply influenced the field of psychotherapy research for 50 years, died on October 5, 2006, of Parkinson's disease. He was 85 years old. Hans entered the field when psychotherapy research largely focused on straightforward questions of general efficacy. Beginning with the publication of his dissertation in 1955, Hans demonstrated a keen ability of systematically applying rigorous scientific methods to phenomena that were close to the hearts of practicing therapists. Hans was an early advocate of the need for audio and video recording of therapy sessions for research purposes. The scientific study of the therapeutic process was a central focus of his research. Equal to his empirical contributions was Hans's talent as a writer and what many regard as his uncanny rhetorical abilities. This balance allowed him to engage in discussions with many scientists from radically different schools, which contributed to the foundation of the movement of psychotherapy integration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions: Hans H. Strupp.

Recognizing the diversity of roles and activities in which many professional psychologists are engaged, beginning in 1979, Professional Awards have been presented to individual members of the Association whose distinguished contributions have served to advance psychology as a profession in the areas of knowledge, public service, and professional practice. Hans Strupp was the recipient of the Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge award. Strupp was cited for his numerous contributions to the knowledge and practice of professional psychology. A pioneer in the study of therapeutic process and change, he has forged rigorous research methods for studying psychotherapy. His stewardship of psychotherapy research has helped form it into a respected field of scientific inquiry, and his active leadership in the integration of clinical and research knowledge has been invaluable to the psychotherapy professions. In addition to the citation, a biography and selected bibliography of his works are presented. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Changes in counselor adherence over the course of training.

Following recommendations of S. F. Butler and H. H. Strupp (1993), novice counselors were used to examine the development of adherence and counselor interactional style over the course of manual-based training in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP; H. H. Strupp & J. Binder; 1984). Adherence to TLDP was assessed with the Vanderbilt Therapeutic Strategies Scale. Counselor interactional style was assessed with the client version of the Working Alliance Inventory. Growth curve analyses showed a significant linear increase in TLDP adherence and in client-rated working alliance for the novice counselors across 4 supervised training sessions. Time-series analysis (cross-correlations) indicated there was a lead-lag relationship with (a) counseling sessions in which higher ratings of counselor interactional style followed sessions with more counselor adherence to a general psychodynamic interviewing style and (b) sessions with higher ratings on adherence to psychodynamic interviewing style preceded sessions with higher level of adherence to TLDP specific strategies. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Awards for distinguished professional contributions: 1987.

Recognizing the diversity of roles and activities in which many professional psychologists are engaged, beginning in 1979, Professional Awards have been presented to individual members of the Association whose distinguished contributions have served to advance psychology as a profession in the areas of knowledge, public service, and professional practice. In 1987, recipients honored at the annual convention in Washington, DC, were as follows: for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Public Service," Edwin Shneidman and Lenore Walker; for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Psychology as a Professional Practice, "Alfred M. Wellner and Carl N. Zimet; for "Distinguished Professional Contributions to Knowledge," Mary D. S. Ainsworth and Hans H. Strupp. Annette Brodsky, Chair of the Board of Professional Affairs, presented the awards. The members of the BPA Subcommittee on Professional Awards were William Howell and Stanley Schneider. The awardees for all of the years since the establishment of the custom are also presented here. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

"Internalization of interpersonal process in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy": Erratum.

Reports an error in "Internalization of interpersonal process in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy" by R. Steven Harrist, Stephen M. Quintana, Hans H. Strupp and William P. Henry (Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training, 1994[Spr], Vol 31[1], 49-57). This article contained, as Figure 1, an SASB model. The authorship and copyrights for the model were not acknowledged. The following acknowledgement should have been included: "Adapted from Benjamin (1984). Principles of Prediction using Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB). In R. A. Zucker, J. Aronoff, and A. J. Rabin (Eds.), Personality and the Prediction of Behavior (pp. 121- 174). New York: Academic." An apology is offered to the author, Dr. Lorna Smith Benjamin. The particular version used in the article was developed in collaboration with Clinton W. McLemore. (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 1994-46214-001.) Investigated the internalization of positive aspects of therapist–patient (TP) interactions among 70 patients and their 16 therapists who participated in a 5-yr study (H. H. Strupp et al, unpublished) of time-limited dynamic psychotherapy. Patients sought help for anxiety, depression, or other problems with a clear interpersonal component and qualified for an Axis I or Axis II diagnosis on the DSM-III. Instruments included the Structural Analysis of Social Behavior and outcome measures of depression, anxiety, and psychological functioning. Patients' intrapsychic functioning became more similar to interpersonal activity in the TP relationship over the course of psychotherapy. Intrapsychic movement toward interpersonal activity in the TP relationship was associated with positive outcome on measures of depression, anxiety, and on independent clinician ratings of patient psychological functioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans Hugo Selye (1907-1982).

Presents an obituary for Hans Hugo Selye (1907-1982). Hans Selye died on October 16, 1982, in Montreal, where he had worked for 50 years. Despite illness in his last years, he continued his writing and lecturing. Selye was unforgettable, even to people who heard him give only one of his superb lectures. Endowed with enormous energy, charm, intelligence, imagination, and a fierce determination to succeed in the course that he had set for himself, by the 1950s Selye was recognized as one of the driving forces in modern endocrinology, and he established what has become known as the field of stress research. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Review of Psychotherapy in a new key: A guide to time-limited psychotherapy.

Reviews the book, Psychotherapy in a new key: A guide to time-limited psychotherapy by Hans H. Strupp and Jeffrey L. Binder. This is a well-written and carefully-reasoned book that could easily become a minor classic, a benchmark in the development of short-term psychotherapy. For the myriad pyschotherapists who have been practicing short-term therapy, based on dynamic principles, for many years, the book is not likely to be either radical or new. It is rather more likely to provide sound, reasoned arguments for doing what many therapists have intuitively sensed works best: constant focus on the here-and-now interaction between patient and therapist, avoidance of historical reconstructions, and the disciplined use of psychodynamic principles translated into everyday language for improvements of the patient's understanding of current problems in living. This is a great service in and of itself. But the book is likely to find its largest audience and use among several other groups, namely, trainers of psychotherapists, clinicians who wish to develop their skills in short-term approaches, clinic directors who wish to establish short-term therapy programs, and other investigators. Psychotherapy in a new key, quite simply, is a book that no serious student of short-term dynamic therapy can afford to miss. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Matchmaking in psychotherapy: Patient-therapist dimensions and their impact on outcome.

Patient–therapist matching was investigated using recent theoretical and methodological developments to overcome some of the limitations that have hindered similar past efforts. Two hypotheses were tested: (a) Therapeutic outcome is affected by the interaction between patients' and therapists' self-concepts, and (b) increasing anticomplementarity between therapist self-concept and therapists' perceptions of patients' behavior is negatively associated with patient improvement. Data from the first 2 cohorts of the Vanderbilt II Psychotherapy Project (H. H. Strupp et al; see record 1989-10009-001) were analyzed. They included the therapies of 16 experienced therapists, who saw a total of 48 patients (38 women and 10 men) in time-limited psychotherapy. Patients' ages ranged from 24 to 65 years (M age?=?40). Outcome was measured from the perspective of the patient, therapist, and evaluating clinician. Each hypothesis was supported, but not across all 3 outcome perspectives. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The myth of evaluating treatment effectiveness.

Suggests an alternative to H. H. Strupp and S. W. Hadley's (see record 1977-29884-001) tripartite model for evaluating treatment outcome, in which primary prevention, self-regulation methods are used to evaluate individuals' ability to control emotions that interfere with everyday functioning. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Pittu Laungani (1936-2007): Obituary.

Presents an obituary of Pittu Laungani (1936-2007). After receiving bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Bombay, Pittu immigrated to England in 1966. There he married and in 1983 completed his doctoral studies in experimental cross-cultural psychology at the University of London under Hans Eysenck. Specializing as a multicultural counselor, he taught at London South Bank University for over 30 years and later was named honorary senior research fellow at Manchester University. Twice he was elected president of the Institute of Health Promotion and Education, United Kingdom. Pittu leaves his wife Ann, his extended family, and many friends around the world. They remember his warmth, lively personality, courage, and trenchant observations on how our respective cultural backgrounds shape our approaches to life and death. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Calumet.

Comments on an article by Hans J. Eysenck (1954). The author providing these comments states that if he had an "erroneous impression" of Eysenck's main conclusions, it is his further impression that he was not alone in this reaction to his paper. He states that the implicit tone as well as the explicit statement work together in the process of communication. Furthermore, the commentator states that it is good to see that Eysenck has troubled to correct the false impression his paper created. Lastly, the commentator states that it is particularly gratifying that he reiterates the subjective basis of the judgments he found it necessary to make in summarizing the literature. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Observations on the training of therapists in time-limited dynamic psychotherapy.

Suggests that "manualized training" is most effective at increasing adherence to the technical procedures characterizing the treatment under scrutiny. There is minimal evidence that other skills associated with therapeutic competence are acquired or enhanced to the extent found with technical adherence. Drawing on findings from a study of manual-guided training of therapists in the techniques of brief therapy (H. H. Strupp and J. L. Binder, 1984), the author offers recommendations for improving therapy training. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Values: An issue in psychotherapy: Comments on a case study.

Discusses the treatment of a case of homosexual pedophilia by R. J. Kohlenberg (see PA, Vol 52:Issue 5), and the commentaries by G. C. Davison and G. T. Wilson and by H. H. Strupp (see PA, Vol 52:Issue 5), with special reference to the issue of values in psychotherapy. While the question of values is clearly involved in such matters as the acceptance of the client's goals, there appear to be differences in how these values are viewed or evaluated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The tripartite model and the Consumer Reports study.

This article relates the Consumer Reports (1995) study to the framework of the tripartite model of mental health and therapeutic outcomes (H. H. Strupp and S. W. Hadley, 1977) and calls attention to major unsolved problems in the assessment of therapeutic change. The model envisions three perspectives for evaluating outcomes: adaptive behavior (society), sense of well-being, and personality structure. The self-report perspective is viewed as having its own validity; however, it needs to be complemented by the other two perspectives of the model. Integration of the three perspectives has remained a somewhat elusive goal. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

The meaning of empathy: Comments on Hans Strupp's case of Helen R.

Comments on H. H. Strupp's (see record 1991-16137-001) article in which it was asserted that time-limited dynamic psychotherapy may have had an adverse outcome in the patient's view. Strupp's therapy with this particular individual failed, it is argued, because of a lack of empathy. Strupp assumes erroneously that empathy is identical to being gentle and understanding. Unless empathy is understood as the full experiencing of the lifeworld of another person, it traps a client in reactive emotionality and a fragile sense of self, encourages dependency and acting-out behaviors, and supports the client's current way of languaging problems. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Writing Brains: Tracing the Psyche With the Graphical Method.

At the end of the 19th century, the graphic method kindled attempts to use it for investigating psychic processes. In Germany, Hans Berger took up this line of research, later to become the pioneer of electroencephalography (EEG). The trajectory of Berger's work is analyzed as an "enabling constraint," guiding him toward the EEG at a time when nobody else was pursuing this line of research and also causing serious methodological problems. In the epistemological perspective of this analysis, many of his problems extend beyond the local context of his work and point toward ambiguities surrounding the project to trace the psyche with the graphic method. From the mid-1930s, the EEG inspired ongoing attempts to decipher the specific meaning of these recordings, and large ensembles of machinery were mobilized, molding concepts of the psyche according to the results and the specifications of the graphic method. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

What are the "breakthrough problems" in the field of psychotherapy?

Introduces the special section of "breakthrough problems" in the field of psychotherapy. If psychotherapy seeks to qualify as a scientific enterprise, and to advance as a field, it should be able to identify its breakthrough problems whose solution would likely lead to major advances. Based mainly on the articles (J. C. Norcross, see record 84-36221; H. H. Strupp, see record 84-36229; and A. Ellis, see record 84-36286) comprising this special section, a provisional list of breakthrough problems is given, together with invitations to improve and to use the list. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans Albert Einstein: Innovation and Compromise in Formulating Sediment Transport by Rivers

This paper is written to mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Hans Albert Einstein (1904–1973). It casts his career as that of the archetypal researcher protagonist determined to master intellectually the way water flows and conveys alluvial sediment in rivers. In that effort, Einstein personified the mix of success and frustration experienced by many researchers who have attempted to formulate the complicated behavior of alluvial rivers in terms of mechanically based equations. His formulation of the relationship between rates of bed-sediment transport (especially bedload transport) and water flow comprised an innovative departure from the largely empirical approach that prevailed at the time. He introduced into that relationship the emerging fluid-mechanic concepts of turbulence and boundary layers, and concepts of probability theory. Inevitably the numerous complexities attending sediment transport mire formulation and prompt his use of several approximating compromises in order to make estimating bed-sediment transport practicable. His formulation nonetheless is a milestone in river engineering.