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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'.Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis LTD
ISBN-139780415840934
eBay Product ID (ePID)148974422
Product Key Features
Number of Pages318 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Causes and Cures of Neurosis (Psychology Revivals): An introduction to modern behaviour therapy based on learning theory and the principles of conditioning
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
AuthorS. Rachman, H.J. Eysenck
Subject AreaClinical Psychology
SeriesPsychology Revivals
Dimensions
Item Height216 mm
Item Weight567 g
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorH.J. Eysenck, S. Rachman