Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition: Joseph Wolpe
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I first came across this particular book during my training at Boston City Hospital in 1970. It was by that time 12 years old. Skinnerian operant conditioning was the rage in the psychological and psychiatric circles; reciprocal inhibition seemed at the time to be considered passe. The psychoanalysts had already discounted any suggestion that the only effect of insight-oriented therapy was to provide a therapeutic setting in which reciprocal inhibition took place. Behaviour therapists were busy working out complex positive and negative reinforcement schedules for illnesses as diverse as schizophrenia and alcoholism. Dr Laing put in an appearance in Boston at that particular time, extolling the virtues of the existential benefits of madness. But, I imagine that in its day, this book was highly controversial, since it challenges the central premise of psychoanalysis-that the essence of psychotherapy is uncovering and expression of the repressed.
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Behaviorism did not disappear after the cognitive revolution; it developed into robust methods for behavioral change in applied disciplines such as applied behavior analysis and behavior therapy.
“When the cognitive revolution dethroned behaviorism in academic psychology during the second half of the 20th century, behaviorism did not disappear. Instead, it developed into a robust set of methods for accomplishing behavioral change in a variety of applied disciplines such as applied behavior analysis (Baer et al. 1968) and behavior therapy (Wolpe 1958).”
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- Authors
- Lieberman, S.
- Affiliations
- St George's Hospital (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Lieberman, Stuart
- Venue
- British Journal of Psychiatry
- Publisher
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
- Published
- 1986-10
- Volume
- 149
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 518-519
- ISSN
- 0007-1250 (ISSN-L)
- 1472-1465
- OpenAlex
- W2004082703
- Cited by
- 1
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2021: 1
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The British Journal of Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › General Psychology › Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology
- Keywords
- reciprocal inhibition, systematic desensitization, behavior therapy, psychoanalysis, insight therapy, operant conditioning, history of psychotherapy
- MeSH terms
- Psychotherapy, History, 20th Century
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