| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The generalizability of the psychoanalytic concept of the working alliance. | Psychotherapy | 1979 | 3,340 |
| 2 | Transtheoretical therapy: Toward a more integrative model of change. | Psychotherapy | 1982 | 2,600 |
| 3 | Alliance in individual psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 1,483 |
| 4 | The imposter phenomenon in high achieving women: Dynamics and therapeutic intervention. | Psychotherapy | 1978 | 1,067 |
| 5 | Culturally adapted mental health intervention: A meta-analytic review. | Psychotherapy | 2006 | 914 |
| 6 | The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis. | Psychotherapy | 2018 | 908 |
| 7 | Research summary on the therapeutic relationship and psychotherapy outcome. | Psychotherapy | 2001 | 897 |
| 8 | Stages of change in psychotherapy: Measurement and sample profiles. | Psychotherapy | 1983 | 865 |
| 9 | The role of mentalizing and epistemic trust in the therapeutic relationship. | Psychotherapy | 2014 | 570 |
| 10 | Evidence-based therapy relationships: Research conclusions and clinical practices. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 542 |
| 11 | Repairing alliance ruptures. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 494 |
| 12 | What are the benefits of mindfulness? A practice review of psychotherapy-related research. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 490 |
| 13 | The staff burn-out syndrome in alternative institutions. | Psychotherapy | 1975 | 446 |
| 14 | Stages of change in psychotherapy: A follow-up report. | Psychotherapy | 1989 | 436 |
| 15 | Motivation as a predictor of early dropout from drug abuse treatment. | Psychotherapy | 1993 | 421 |
| 16 | Psychotherapy relationships that work II. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 394 |
| 17 | Assimilation of problematic experiences by clients in psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 1990 | 388 |
| 18 | Early withdrawal from mental health treatment: Implications for psychotherapy practice. | Psychotherapy | 2008 | 376 |
| 19 | Collecting client feedback. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 343 |
| 20 | Empathy. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 342 |
| 21 | The working alliance: Where are we and where should we go? | Psychotherapy | 2006 | 334 |
| 22 | The concept of the alliance and its role in psychotherapy: Theoretical and empirical considerations. | Psychotherapy | 1990 | 321 |
| 23 | Expanding the lens of evidence-based practice in psychotherapy: A common factors perspective. | Psychotherapy | 2014 | 317 |
| 24 | Clinical psychologists' religious and spiritual orientations and their practice of psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 1990 | 315 |
| 25 | Stages of change. | Psychotherapy | 2001 | 314 |
| 26 | Trauma, dissociation, and disorganized attachment: Three strands of a single braid. | Psychotherapy | 2004 | 313 |
| 27 | Religiosity of psychotherapists: A national survey. | Psychotherapy | 1990 | 306 |
| 28 | Complex trauma, complex reactions: Assessment and treatment. | Psychotherapy | 2004 | 303 |
| 29 | Psychotherapy relationships that work III. | Psychotherapy | 2018 | 284 |
| 30 | Forgiveness as a psychotherapeutic goal with elderly females. | Psychotherapy | 1993 | 273 |
| 31 | Therapeutic alliance rupture as a therapy event for empirical investigation. | Psychotherapy | 1990 | 259 |
| 32 | Collecting and delivering progress feedback: A meta-analysis of routine outcome monitoring. | Psychotherapy | 2018 | 246 |
| 33 | Dropout and therapeutic alliance: A meta-analysis of adult individual psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 2010 | 240 |
| 34 | The alliance in child and adolescent psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 235 |
| 35 | Contemporary psychotherapists: A national survey of characteristics, practices, orientations, and attitudes. | Psychotherapy | 1983 | 233 |
| 36 | The alliance. | Psychotherapy | 2001 | 232 |
| 37 | A comparison of six measures of working alliance. | Psychotherapy | 1989 | 228 |
| 38 | Treatment of major depressive disorder in older adult outpatients with brief psychotherapies. | Psychotherapy | 1982 | 215 |
| 39 | Has the concept of the therapeutic alliance outlived its usefulness? | Psychotherapy | 2006 | 215 |
| 40 | The cognitive and emotive uses of forgiveness in the treatment of anger. | Psychotherapy | 1986 | 203 |
| 41 | Therapist empathy and client outcome: An updated meta-analysis. | Psychotherapy | 2018 | 203 |
| 42 | A review of therapist characteristics and techniques negatively impacting the therapeutic alliance. | Psychotherapy | 2001 | 201 |
| 43 | Mammy, Sapphire, and Jezebel: Historical images of Black women and their implications for psychotherapy. | Psychotherapy | 1995 | 193 |
| 44 | Goal consensus and collaboration. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 190 |
| 45 | Families under stress: Interventions for caregivers of senile dementia patients. | Psychotherapy | 1982 | 185 |
| 46 | Does a continuous feedback system improve psychotherapy outcome? | Psychotherapy | 2009 | 185 |
| 47 | Preventing vicarious traumatization of mental health therapists: Identifying protective practices. | Psychotherapy | 2009 | 184 |
| 48 | Reducing psychotherapy dropouts: Maximizing perspective convergence in the psychotherapy dyad. | Psychotherapy | 1999 | 182 |
| 49 | How a return to theory could help alliance research. | Psychotherapy | 2006 | 182 |
| 50 | Cohesion in group therapy. | Psychotherapy | 2011 | 182 |
