Psychotherapy integration can refer to a common factors approach to understanding psychotherapy, to assimilative integration (a combination of treatments drawn from different approaches but guided by a unitary theoretical understanding), or to theoretical integration (an attempt to understand the patient by developing a superordinate theoretical framework that draws from a variety of different frameworks). In contrast to eclectic psychotherapy, it Is based on theoretical understanding. It recognlxes the central role of the therapeutic relation‐chip and the value of techniques drawn from disparate approaches. Because It transcends the limits of any single, pure‐form approach to treatment, ft has promise to become the defining process (not school) for future generations of psychotherapi