Includes chapters contributed by various authors.

Bibliography: p. 357-368.

Introduction -- What is laboratory training : description of a typical residential laboratory -- Overview of laboratory training -- Variations in laboratory training -- The design of one-week laboratories / Roger Harrison and Barry Oshry -- Sensitivit y training and being motivation / J.F.T. Bugental and Robert Tannenbaum -- The uses of the laboratory method in a psychiatric hospital. Section A. The patient training laboratory : an adaptation of the instrumented training laboratory / Robert B. Morton. Section B. Follow-up evaluation of human relations training for psychiatric patients / D.L. Johnson ... [et al.] -- A 9,9 approach for increasing organizational productivity / Robert R. Blake and Jane Srygley Mouton -- Sensitivity training and community development / Donald C. Klein -- Principles and strategies in the use of laboratory training for improving social systems -- Research on laboratory training outcomes -- Learning processes and outcomes in human relations training : a clinical experimental study / Matthew B. Miles -- The effect of laboratory education upon individual behavior / Douglas R. Bunker -- A general overview of our learning theory -- Organizational forces that aid and hinder attitude change -- The laboratory as a force toward learning -- Some hypotheses about the relative learning impact of different kinds of laboratories -- Our questions about laboratory training -- Appendix 1. If you want to run a laboratory -- Appendix 2. If you want to read further.