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Behavioural Concepts and Treatments of Neuroses: Comments on Marks and Wilson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Ian H. Robertson
Ian H. Robertson
Affiliation:
Senior Clinical Psychologist, Tayside Area Clinical Psychology Department, Royal Dundee Liff Hospital, Dundee
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Marks (1981) recently argued that behavioural psychotherapy had few practical, theoretical or historical links with theoretical and experimental psychology. This paper attempts to elaborate some of Wilson's (1981) arguments against this view and cites some additional British evidence in support of these arguments. Wilson's consideration of the issue of service delivery appears unsatisfactory and the suggestion is made that behavioural psychotherapy be taken out of the medical arena and placed within a rationalized therapeutic service independent of the present medical–sychological–social work structures.

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Research Article
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Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 179 - 183
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Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1982

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