Trevor,
Thank you alerting me to the article by Carey and Mullan. Their initial expectation, of discovering common definitions and technques, dissolved into an ever-widening awareness of the Socratic diversity in field of psychotherapy. This expansion could also have embraced the arenas of business, education, and law, yielding an even greater range of purposes and techniques. They wisely suggest that future exploration of the Socratic Method in psychotherapy should be linked to the intent of the therapst. In the practice of Classical Adlerian depth psychotherapy, there are about fifty Socratic strategies that I have adapted for the purposes of dissolving a style of life and fictional final goal, and building the feeling of community. They are featured in distance training courses DT302A and DT307, described at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homep...n/dist-tra.htm.