Integration of Psychodynamic and Behavioral Psychotherapies

Abstract

focuses on the integration of psychodynamic and behavioral views of psychotherapy / focus on the issues and obstacles associated with the attempt to combine psychodynamic and behavioral views / the central thesis of the chapter is that integration as a general movement represents a highly significant development in psychotherapy / however, it may be the general movement that is worth promoting rather than the specific attempt to integrate psychodynamic and behavioral views (from the chapter)integrationism in psychotherapy / symptom substitution: a case study of conceptual clash and emiprical integration / integration of psychotherapiesThis chapter is followed by a commentary by E. Mendelsohn and L. H. Silverman. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)