The derailment of behavior therapy: A tale of conceptual misdirection

摘要: Abstract Forty years ago it was shown that neuroses are persistent unadaptive anxiety response habits can be systematically overcome by deconditioning procedures collectively known as behavior therapy. Indispensable to therapy is analysis — detailed and accurate specification of the antecedents individual's neurotic patterns. In recent years, movement has been infiltrated two alien orientations “exposure therapy” cognitivism which repudiate conditioning theory dispense with characteristic analysis. By claiming more effective, approaches have induced widespread abandonment model. fact, outcomes not improved methodologies, in many cases become worse. Also, no viable change proposed place conditioning. The result an amorphous eclecticism psychoanalysis primal scream could readily added. Some first steps suggested towards restoring principles their central role field.