| Abstract: | 481 American Psychological Association Division 29 psychologists engaged in psychotherapy returned a mailed questionnaire concerning their characteristics, activities, affiliations, theories, and satisfactions. Results are described and compared with findings of a similar study completed a decade ago. Among the most salient findings were (1) an aging profession that shows high career satisfaction and increased employment in independent practice; (2) 70% endorsement of psychodynamicism or psychoanalysis as a primary or secondary orientation; (3) an escalating proportion of female psychotherapists, whose employment in independent practice is more than 2.5 times greater than in 1981; and (4) a negligible increase in minority therapists. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
