Some reflexions over mental health system and psychotherapy integration

Abstract

In the history of psychotherapy we can find, firstly, the need to demonstrate its general effectiveness, and secondly, the need to solve the dilemma created by the impossibility to find differences in effectiveness among the interventions based upon different theoretical conceptions. In this paper the attempts to satisfy both needs are reviewed. Moreover, the utility of the ideas from the three versions of the movement for eclecticism and integration of psychotherapies (technical eclecticism, theoretical integration and common factors) are emphasized in order to be used by the psychotherapists working in the public sector, bearing in mind that these psychotherapists do not have the possibility of selecting their patients.