Abstract
Bhar and Beck (2009) examined the extent to which treatment integrity procedures were implemented in studies comparing psychoanalytic psychotherapies and cognitive-behavioral therapies. Consistent with other reports on attention to treatment integrity in psychotherapy research, the authors noted that most of the evaluated studies did not adequately implement treatment integrity procedures. This highlights methodological neglect of treatment integrity and a need to amend errors in monitoring the independent variables under investigation. This commentary considers how Bhar and Beck’s investigation affects the dodo bird verdict that all psychotherapies are presumed to be of equal efficacy. Further, ways to examine the treatment integrity of process-oriented treatments (e.g., humanistic, psychoanalytic) are discussed.
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