Role of Learning in Psychotherapy (eBook)

Ruth Porter is the editor of The Role of Learning in Psychotherapy, published by Wiley.

THE ROLE OF LEARNING IN PSYCHOTHERAPY 5
Contents 7
Preface 13
Chairman’s opening remarks 15
The persistence of abnormal behaviour in monkeys following isolation rearing 17
Discussion 41
Methods of assessing the results of psychotherapy 54
Discussion 69
Psychodynamic assessment of the outcome of psycho- therapy 77
Discussion 82
Controlled trials in behaviour therapy 84
Discussion 97
Learning to solve emotional problems: a controlled study of short-term anxiety-provoking psychotherapy 103
Discussion 113
Basic aspects of learning in the psychology and psycho- pathology of the child 116
Discussion 126
Psychotherapy: placebo effect and/or learning 130
Discussion 139
Behaviour therapy and graded structure 150
Discussion 160
Assessment of token economy programmes in psychiatric hospitals 171
Discussion 190
The learning component in the dynamic therapeutic situation 202
Discussion 209
Modelling approaches to the modification of phobic disorders 217
Discussion 233
The psychotherapeutic ingredient in the learning process 240
Discussion 249
General discussion 258
Prospects and possibilities in the development of behaviour therapy 262
Discussion 277
Psychoanalytic psychology and learning theory 290
Discussion 303
Visceral learning and other additional facts potentially applicable to psychotherapy 310
Discussion 325
Group discussion 328
Chairman’s closing remarks 345
Author Index 350
Subject Index 351