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Some Problems in Behaviour Therapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

V. Meyer  and
A. H. Crisp
V. Meyer
Affiliation:
Academic Psychiatry Unit, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, W.I
A. H. Crisp
Affiliation:
Academic Psychiatry Unit, Middlesex Hospital Medical School, London, W.I
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Behaviour therapy is conducted in this department under combined general psychiatric and behaviour therapist supervision. Patients considered suitable for behaviour therapy are first assessed clinically at a phenomenological and psychodynamic level. On the basis of this assessment an appropriate symptom or number of symptoms are selected for treatment by behaviour therapy. The patient is thereafter observed by the original clinician and assessed at regular intervals. Meanwhile the behaviour therapist treats the specific symptom or symptoms.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 112 , Issue 485 , April 1966 , pp. 367 - 381
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1966 

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