Three approaches to psychotherapy. All Three sessions (1965)An actual patient allowed herself to be filmed while engaged in therapy with three different therapists, distinguished by their different orientations but sharing their therapeutic endeavours.
1: A general introduction to the series. Describes client-centered therapy as practiced by Dr Carl Rogers, shows his interview with the patient Gloria and gives a summation of the effectiveness of the interview.
2: Describes Gestalt therapy as practised by Dr Frederick Perls, shows his interview with the patient and gives a summation of the effectiveness of the interview.
3: Describes rational-emotive psychotherapy as practiced by Dr Albert Ellis, shows his interview with the patient Gloria and gives a summation of the effectiveness of the interview. The patient then evaluates her experience with the three therapists.
Source: BUFVC
The client in this film was Gloria Szymanski. She was 31 years old when the sessions were filmed; she had been through a divorce six years earlier, and her daughter, Pammy, was in the fourth grade at the time Gloria married again in 1968, and divorced ten years later. She died of leukemia at the age of 46. Gloria’s daughter, Pamela Burry, later published a book entitled, Living with the Gloria Films, A daughter’s memory. Source: jimalves.wordpress.com
See also "The Gloria Films" by Howard Rosenthal.