The practice of behavior therapy
by Joseph Wolpe
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I. Basic Principles 1. Behavior Therapy: Its Character, Origins, and Applications 2. Stimuli, Responses, Learning, and the Nature of Cognition 3. The Causation of Neuroses 4. Principles of the Unlearning of Neurotic Anxiety 5. Case Analysis and Therapeutic Groundwork 6. Therapeutic Strategy III. Behavior Therapy Techniques 7. Cognitive Therapeutic Procedures 8. Assertiveness Training 9. Systematic Desensitization 10. Variants of Systematic Desensitization 11. Procedures Involving Strong show more Anxiety Evocation 12. Operant-Conditioning Methods 13. Aversion Therapy IV. Complex Neuroses 14. Complex Syndromes with Overt Anxiety 15. Complex Syndromes With Background Anxiety 16. Four Instructive Complex Cases V. Evaluations 17. Evaluation of the Effects of Behavior Therapy 18. Current Practice of Behavior Therapy: Retreat form Principles Appendices, References, and Indexes show lessTags
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Joseph Wolpe received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. After medical and surgical internships, he went into private practice and then in 1946 decided to enter psychiatric training and research. During this time, he did the research on which his behavioral therapy is based. Wolpe was professor of psychiatry at show more the University of Virginia School of Medicine from 1960 to 1965. Since then, he has been director of the Behavior Therapy Unit at Temple University Medical School and a senior research psychiatrist at Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute in Philadelphia. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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