Jerome D. Frank, MD, PhD, (1909-2005), was a social psychologist and psychiatrist whose research into psychotherapy extended from WWII through sixty years as a clinician and professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Julia B. Frank, MD, also a psychiatric educator, is an emeritus professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the George Washington University School of Medicine, a coauthor of the third edition of Persuasion and Healing, and a coeditor of the third edition of The Behavioral Sciences and Health Care. Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, is an emeritus professor of counseling psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the author of The Great Psychotherapy Debate: The Evidence for What Makes Psychotherapy Work, and the former Director of the Research Institute at the Modum Bad Psychiatric Center in Norway.

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"In this updated edition of Persuasion and Healing, Julia B. Frank, MD, and Bruce E. Wampold, PhD, examine psychological healing in both scientific and cultural terms, building upon Jerome D. Frank and his colleagues' sixty years of research into the mechanisms of psychotherapy and the nature of therapeutic relationships. This classic work is a must-read for anyone dedicated to understanding psychotherapy in all its forms as the application of the compassionate principles of persuasion and healing to the mental health challenges of a troubled world"--