The review is concerned with the following different approaches to counseling: traditional counseling, brief psychotherapy, suggestion, semantics, narcosynthesis, hypnosis, psychoanalysis, brief psychoanalysis, hypnotherapy, psychodrama, relationship therapy, nondirective therapy, and group therapy. 4 aspects of each of these approaches are considered. These include descriptions of the technique, theoretical contributions, significant research studies, and evaluating articles. Present developments and trends in psychotherapeutic counseling are evaluated. 426-item bibliography.