Abstract
Increasing concern with the influence of therapist values and beliefs in psychotherapy underscores the importance of determining whether a patient's personality and personal belief systems become more like those of their therapist and facilitate improvement in the course of therapy. A review of literature suggests that convergence of patient and therapist belief systems and personalities is associated with improvement and that initial discrepancy among belief systems facilitates convergence. However, the relationship between convergence and improvement is sufficiently complex to disallow firm conclusions at this point. The importance of considering personal belief systems in psychotherapy is underlined by the fact that patients seem to adopt the personal beliefs of their therapists during successful treatment.
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