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Behaviour Therapy in Complex Neurotic States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Joseph Wolpe
Joseph Wolpe*
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University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
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In recent years it has become widely known that behaviour therapy (conditioning therapy) is effective in the treatment of neuroses. However, in many minds, this knowledge has come to be hedged by some erroneous qualifications, of which the commonest are: (a) that behaviour therapy leaves the “deep” cause of neurosis untouched, and (b) that it is successful with “monosymptomatic” and allegedly simple cases like phobias, but not with more complex neuroses, such as obsessions and “character neuroses”.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 110 , Issue 464 , January 1964 , pp. 28 - 34
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1964 

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