Experiments in Behaviour Therapy
Readings in Modern Methods of Treatment of Mental Disorders Derived from Learning Theory
- 1st Edition - January 1, 1964
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editor: H. J. Eysenck
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 6 9 0 8 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 4 8 9 - 0
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Request a sales quoteExperiments in Behavior Therapy: Readings in Modern Methods of Treatment of Mental Disorders Derived from Learning Theory focuses on experiments involving the application of modern theories of learning and conditioning to behavior disorders. The selection first offers information on the nature of behavior and systematic desensitization treatment of neuroses. Discussions focus on the technique of systematic desensitization, examples of hierarchies from actual cases, and desensitization procedure. The text then ponders on experimental desensitization of a phobia, treatment by a method derived from experimental psychology, and treatment of anxiety and phobic reactions by systematic desensitization psychotherapy. The publication examines the treatment of chronic frigidity by systematic desensitization, application of reciprocal inhibition therapy to exhibitionism, and group therapy of phobic disorders by systematic desensitization. The isolation of a conditioning procedure as the crucial psychotherapeutic factor; application of learning principles to the treatment of obsessive-compulsive states in the acute and chronic phases of illness; and case of homosexuality treated by aversion therapy are also discussed. The selection is a dependable source of data for readers interested in behavior therapy.
Foreword
The Nature of Behavior Therapy
Part I Reciprocal Inhibition
1. The Systematic Desensitization Treatment of Neuroses
2. The Experimental Desensitization of a Phobia
3. A Case of Cat Phobia (Treatment by a Method Derived from Experimental Psychology)
4. Case Report: The Treatment of Anxiety and Phobic Reactions by Systematic Desensitization Psychotherapy
5. The Treatment of Chronic Frigidity by Systematic Desensitization
6. Application of Reciprocal Inhibition Therapy to Exhibitionism
7. Group Therapy of Phobic Disorders by Systematic Desensitization
8. Isolation of a Conditioning Procedure as the Crucial Psychotherapeutic Factor: A Case Study
9. The Application of Learning Principles to the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive States in the Acute and Chronic Phases of Illness
10. Behavior Therapy, Spontaneous Remission and Transference in Neurotics
11. Case of Homosexuality Treated
12. Behavior Therapy in Transvestism
13. The Application of Behavior Therapy to a Sexual Disorder
14. Behavior Therapy, Extinction and Relapse in Neurosis
Part II Operant Conditioning
15. Reinforcement and Punishment in the Control of Human Behavior by Social Agencies
16. Application of Operant Conditioning to Reinstate Verbal Behavior in Psychotics
17. Intensive Treatment of Psychotic Behavior by Stimulus Satiation and Food Reinforcement
18. Experimental Analysis of Hysterical Blindness
19. Reduction in Rate of Multiple Tics by Free Operant Conditioning Methods
20. Conditioning of Mental-Hospital Patients to Fixed-Ratio Schedules of Reinforcement
21. The Psychiatric Nurse as a Behavioral Engineer
22. Operant Stuttering: The Control of Stuttering Behavior Through Response-Contingent Consequences
23. Conditioning Against Silences in Group Therapy
Part III Other Methods
24. I. Rational psychotherapy; II. A Homosexual Treated with Rational Psychotherapy; III. The Treatment of a Psychopath with Rational Psychotherapy; IV. Outcome of Employing Three Techniques of Psychotherapy
25. Behavior Modification in Chronic Schizophrenics
26. Asthma Conceived as a Learned Response
27. Recent Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to the Experimental Manipulation of Speech in Normal Subjects and in Stammerers
28. Learning Theory and the Treatment of Tics
29. Experimental Psychology and the Treatment of a Ticqueur
30. Massed Practice and Simultaneous Reduction in Drive Level
31. Objective Psychotherapy in the Treatment of Dysphemia
32. The Hypnotic Treatment of Asthma
33. Some Clinical Applications of Autohypnosis
Part IV Behavior Therapy with Children
34. Learning Theory and Child Psychology: Therapeutic Possibilities
35. The Use of "Emotive Imagery" in the Treatment of Children's Phobias
36. The Use of Learning Theory in the Psychological Treatment of Children
37. The Elimination of Children's Phobias by Deconditioning
38. Clinical Implications of Relationships Between Verbal and Nonverbal Operant Behavior
39. Effect of Withdrawal of Positive Reinforcement on an Extinguishing Response in Young Children
40. Interaction Between Verbal and Nonverbal Behavior
41. Rapid Development of Multiple-Schedule Performances with Retarded Children
42. The Development of Performances in Autistic Children in an Automatically Controlled Environment
Author Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 1964
- No. of pages (eBook): 568
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781483169088
- eBook ISBN: 9781483184890
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