Prof. PhDr. Stanislav Kratochvíl, CSc. Chief clinical psychologist, Psychiatric Hospital in Kroměříž, and Professor Emeritus of  clinical psychology, Palacky University  in Olomouc, Czech Republic.  Author of 10 Czech books, reflecting his professional experience, six of which have been translated to  Polish:  Podstawy psychoterapii, Terapia malzenska, Leczenie zaburzen seksualnych,  Hipnoza, podejscie experimentalne, Hipnoza kliniczna, Zagadnienia grupowej terapii nerwic. Honourary member  of Polish Psychiatric Society and Polish Therapeutic Society (English: Foundations of psychotherapy, Marital therapy, Therapy of sexual dysfunctions, Hypnosis, experimental approach, Clinical hypnosis, Group psychotherapy of neuroses).

Integrative psychotherapy, a practical approach
Three partial integrative hypotheses include: 1. common factors in all effective psychotherapies, 2. alternative factors in different approaches, which can produce similar effect, 3. specific factors influencing certain symptoms, certain problems and certain patients, less effective in other cases. In clinical practice, both in indivividual and group psychotherapy of neurotic disoders, we appreciate successive combination of: 1. empathic conversation with self-disclosure of the patient, (rogerian approach) 2. interventions supporting interpersonal and psychogenetic insight (dynamic approach), 3. trainig of desirable ways of thinking and behavior (CBT approach), with occasional inclusion of various other conceptions and techniques like Gestalt, transactional analysis, psychodrama etc., 4. searching personal sense and perspectives in future (humanistic approach).