Successful therapy eventuates in changed reaction-sensitivities, increased flexibility of behavior, and success in handling new interpersonal problems, occurring outside as well as within the formal therapeutic sessions. These three aspects of successful therapy imply the occurrence of generalization from the formal therapeutic hour to outside, everyday situations. It is suggested that "the improving patient is the patient who has learned how to learn a certain variety of interpersonal problem in the presence of his therapist." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)