[Psychotherapy in transition--from confession to profession. A controversy over a remarkable book by Klaus Grawe, Ruth Donati and Friederike Bernauer].

Grawe, Donati and Bernauer conducted together with 16 female and male coworkers the first comprehensive meta-analysis of all the psychotherapeutic studies that were available. They examined and evaluated each of a total of 897 studies according to 1000 individual parameters. Even before publication, everyone concerned took sides, turning the book into a political affair: behavioural therapists versus female psychoanalysts, psychologists versus female physicians, female scientists versus followers of a "school". Be that as it may, the book by Grawe, Bernauer and Donati yields important results which nobody can deny without harming the very methods it citicises.