ON SOME COMPLEXITIES IN THE APPLICATION OF CONFLICT THEORY TO PSYCHOTHERAPY
- 1 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
- Vol. 166 (7) , 457-471
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005053-197807000-00001
Abstract
Several complications which arise in applying Dollard and Miller''s analysis of conflict to the study of psychotherapy were discussed, including problems associated with recent theorizing on the nonunitary nature of fear; considerations relevant to the question of why individuals exposed to partial cues for anxiety do not show extinction of the anxiety, generalization of extinction and increased approach behavior; the role of interpersonal feedback in maintaining neurotic behavior; and the issue of changing goals as therapy proceeds.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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