Originally published in 1965 this book was an introduction to
post-Freudian methods of diagnosing and treating neurotics of the
time. These methods were known collectively as behaviour therapy, a
term indicating their derivation from modern behaviourism, learning
theory, and conditioning principles. In the early twentieth century
John B. Watson pointed out that psychology, as the behaviourist
views it, is a purely objective experimental branch of natural
science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of
behaviour. Behaviour therapy attempts to extend this control to the
field of neurotic disorders, and in doing so it makes use of
experimental laboratory findings, and of theories based on these.
It was seen as the very opposite of the position taken by
psychoanalysis.
The authors believed that, by the late twentieth century,
behaviour therapy would be firmly established as one of the most
important, if not "the" most important, weapon in the hands of
psychiatrists and clinical psychologists ."
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