Originally Posted by
pedagogue 
That's incorrect. The therapeutic alliance has been found to be a major contributor to outcome success, but it isn't the sole contributor. Carl Rogers spoke of the importance of the therapeutic relationship in a number of his books, quite interesting stuff. "A Way of Being" is a classic, and was the pre-cursor to "On Becoming A Person"...both of which are modern classics.
And it is 6-7 years.
-p
in the program that I was just kicked out of (long story, Dont get me started) the internship was built into the 5 years. I guess if you include post-doc training, it's 6 years.