| Abstract: | Discusses the growing rapproachement between psychotherapy based on psychodynamic principles and behavior therapy. Both, in the final analysis, are concerned with the elucidation of the psychological processes by which personality and behavior change is brought about. The present article delineates areas of convergence, with special reference to the "treatment package," patient variables, and the therapeutic interaction. It is concluded that psychotherapy of all varieties is made up of learning, unlearning, and relearning experiences that can be mediated in different ways and that the task of the future is to spell out the conditions that promote or impede such learning. (15 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
