Behavior therapy: Observations and reflections.

Presents impressions based on 5 days' observation of the clinical activities of Joseph Wolpe and Arnold Lazarus at the Eastern Pennsylvania Psychiatric Institute: (1) behavior therapists now treat a wider range of patients and use a greater variety of treatment methods than before; (2) treatment is becoming longer and more complicated, with concomitant lowering of success rates; (3) clinical inference is essential in diagnosis, hierarchy selection, patient management, and ongoing evaluation; and (4) elements of suggestion in the patient-therapist reltionship may play a powerful role in treatment. Implications of these impressions for research and clinical training are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)