The role of the therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy.
L Luborsky, A Horvath Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 1993
Traces the development of the concept of the therapeutic working alliance from its psychodynamic origins to current pantheoretical formulations. Research on the alliance is reviewed under 4 headings: the relation between a positive alliance and success in therapy, the path of the alliance over time, the examination of variables that predi...