The Causes and Cures of Neurosis: An Introduction to Modern Behaviour Therapy based on Learning Theory and the Principles of Conditioning

by S. Rachman, Hans Jürgen Eysenck, S Rachman

Book Overview

Originally published in 1965 this book was an introduction to post-Freudian methods of diagnosing and treating neurotics of the time. These methods were known collectively as 'behaviour therapy', a term indicating their derivation from modern behaviourism, learning theory, and conditioning principles. In the early twentieth century John B. Watson pointed out that 'psychology, as the behaviourist views it, is a purely objective experimental branch...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415841011
• ISBN13: 9780415841016
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"