Behavior therapy and sex therapy
- 1 August 1976
- journal article
- case report
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 133 (8) , 896-899
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.133.8.896
Abstract
Behavior therapy is characterized by the way in which clinical data are collected, analyzed, and used in the treatment program-specifically, the application of the methods of experimental and social psychology. A case history of the behavioral treatment of a sexual problem is presented to illustrate this process. Many people have assumed that the "new sex therapy" is behavior therapy because of its focus on the here and now and similarities in particular treatment maneuvers. However, the author notes that sex therapy is behavior therapy only to the extent that it deals comprehensively with environmental, interpersonal, and organismic factors that operate to maintain the sexual problem.Keywords
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