1. The structure of personality and direction of interest -- 2. Conservatism -- 3. Patients' expectancies in psychiatric treatment -- 4. Staff expectancies and attitudes to patient care -- 5. Thinking styles, creativity, and adjustment strategies -- 6. Openness, control, and neurosis -- 7. The complaints of psychological distress -- 8. Personal construing -- 9. Small group psychotherapy and behaviour therapy : therapeutic assumptions -- 10. Treatment outcome -- 11. Conclusions