Lester Luborsky

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Lester Bernard Luborsky (born May 15, 1920 in Philadelphia ; † October 22, 2009 ibid) was an American psychologist , psychoanalyst and psychotherapy researcher . He is considered one of the pioneers in empirical psychotherapy research.

Life

As the child of Eastern European emigrants (Meyer and Celia Luborsky) he was born in Philadelphia (USA) and grew up there. He completed his psychology studies at Duke University with a PhD . He worked at the University of Illinois for two years . After that he was a member of the Menninger Foundation for over eleven years before moving to the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania . From 1973 to 1974 Luborsky was President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research .

Scientific contributions

The following works by Lester Luborsky received great attention:

The equivalence paradox or "Dodo-Bird-Verdict"

In a much-cited review of hundreds of comparative therapy studies, he came to the conclusion that psychotherapy is generally effective, but that no differences can be found between the various schools or types of psychotherapy. Based on Saul Rosenzweig (1936), he used a quote from Alice in Wonderland , in which the dodo does not choose a winner after a race, but instead decides: Everyone has won and all must have prizes . This article, considered a classic in the psychotherapy research literature, sparked decades of controversy over whether individual forms of therapy are proven to be more effective than others.

CCRT Core Conflictual Relationship Theme

The research method of the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme (CCRT) or in German Central Relationship Conflict Topic (ZBKT) was a paradigmatic development for the formalization and operationalization of psychodynamic, clinical concepts. He thus proved that psychodynamic and also psychoanalytic concepts that stem from clinical observation are accessible to scientific investigation. This evidence was relevant for the rejection of doubts about the scientific investigability of psychodynamic concepts.

Therapeutic Alliance

The therapeutic alliance between patient and psychotherapist (also called therapeutic working relationship) is considered to be the basis of successful psychotherapy. Lester Luborsky was one of the first to operationalize this construct; H. Designed and validated research instruments for its measurement and documentation.

Works

  • Lester Luborsky: Introduction to Analytical Psychotherapy: A Textbook. Göttingen, Zurich: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 3-525-45780-4
  • Lester Luborsky & Paul Crits-Christoph: Understanding Transference: The Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method , APA Books, 1998.
  • L. Alexander, Lester Luborsky: The Penn Helping Alliance Scales. In: Leslie S. Greenberg & W. Pinsof (Eds.), The psychotherapeutic process: A research handbook , New York: Guilford Press, 1986, pp. 325-366.

Literature on Lester Luborsky

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  1. ^ Society of Psychotherapy Research List of Past Presidents
  2. ^ Lester Luborsky, Barton Singer, Lisa Luborsky: Comparative studies of psychotherapies: Is it true that "everyone has won and all must have prices"? Archives of General Psychiatry , 32 (8), 1975, pp. 995-1008, doi : 10.1001 / archpsyc.1975.01760260059004
  3. ^ Saul Rosenzweig: Some implicit common factors in diverse methods of psychotherapy . American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 6, 1936, pp. 412-415, doi : 10.1111 / j.1939-0025.1936.tb05248.x
  4. ↑ Bruce E. Wampold, Gregory W. Mondin, Marcia Moody, Frederick down, Kurt Benson, Hyun-never Ahn: A meta-analysis of outcome studies comparing bona fide Psychotherapies: Empiricially, "all must have prizes." . Psychological Bulletin , 122 (3), 1997, pp. 203-215, doi : 10.1037 / 0033-2909.122.3.203
  5. ^ Larry E. Beutler: The dodo bird is extinct. Clinical Psychology: Science & Practice, 9 (1), 2002, pp. 30-34, doi : 10.1093 / clipsy.9.1.30
  6. ↑ Relationship patterns and relationship conflicts: theory, clinic and research; with ... 46 tables ... Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 978-3-525-40100-2 , p. 139 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. ^ Lester Luborsky: Two helping alliance methods for predicting outcomes of psychotherapy: A counting signs vs. a global rating method. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 171 (8), 1983, pp. 480-491, doi : 10.1097 / 00005053-198308000-00005
personal data
SURNAME Luborsky, Lester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luborsky, Lester Bernard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American psychotherapy researcher
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia
DATE OF DEATH October 22, 2009
Place of death Philadelphia