Behavior Therapy

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PERHAPS MORE vigorously and quickly than any of its predecessors, behavior therapy seems to have accomplished a secure position among schools of psychotherapy. There is a wave of enthusiasm for the application of treatment techniques which have been taken almost directly from the laboratory of the learning psychologist; and the literature abounds in case reports and studies which serve to document the effectiveness of these new techniques (see Bandura,1 and Grossberg2 for reviews). It is this very enthusiasm and fervor which has resulted in the adoption of conditioning methods for almost any purpose. Problems ranging from enuresis to schizophrenia have been attacked by desensitization, operant conditioning, or classical conditioning. While other schools have shown a splintering in their midst as a result of growing maturity, the proponents of a learning approach have shown differences at the very outset in their preferences for application of

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