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Behavioural Group Therapy: A Controlled Clinical Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Robert Paul Liberman
Robert Paul Liberman*
Affiliation:
Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, California; UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
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The clinical research reported here has two thrusts or purposes: one theoretical and one practical. The theoretical question can be stated: Is psychotherapy in general, and group psychotherapy in particular, a lawful, directive, and predictable process that can be understood from a behavioural or learning point of view? The second question and the more practical and down-to-earth one, is whether analyzing group therapy from a learning point of view can suggest and direct our attention to practical improvements in the technical work that we carry out as group therapists, whatever our theoretical persuasions.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 552 , November 1971 , pp. 535 - 544
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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