Theoretical Foundations of Behavior Therapy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Behavior Therapy

      • H. J. Eysenck

      Pages 3-35

   3. Behavior Modification

      • Angela Schorr

      Pages 37-54

3. Conditioning Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 55-55

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   2. Animal Conditioning and Learning Theory

      • Anthony Dickinson

      Pages 57-79

   3. A Primate Model of Phobic Fears

      • Susan Mineka

      Pages 81-111

   4. Evaluative Conditioning A Case for Hedonic Transfer

      • A. B. Levey, Irene Martin

      Pages 113-131

   5. Knowledge, Action, and Control

      • Irene Martin, A. B. Levey

      Pages 133-151

   6. Operant Conditioning The Hiatus between Theory and Practice in Clinical Psychology

      • C. F. Lowe, P. J. Horne, P. J. Higson

      Pages 153-165

   7. Language Conditioning Clinical Issues and Applications in Behavior Therapy

      • Georg H. Eifert

      Pages 167-193

4. Cognitive Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Trait Anxiety and Cognition

      • Michael W. Eysenck, Andrew Mathews

      Pages 197-216

   3. Clinical Anxiety and Cognition

      • Andrew Mathews, Michael W. Eysenck

      Pages 217-234

   4. Cognitive Theories of Depression

      • M. J. Power

      Pages 235-255

   5. Cognitive Treatment of Depression

      • J. M. G. Williams

      Pages 257-275

   6. Cognitive Theories of Motivation

      • Chris R. Brewin

      Pages 277-293

   7. Emotion, Cognition, and Action

      • Leslie S. Greenberg, Jeremy Safran

      Pages 295-311

5. Description and the Organization of Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-313

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   2. Prospects for Theoretical Progress in Behavior Therapy

      • R. S. Hallam

      Pages 315-329

In this book we have attempted to confront a number of issues that are intimately related to the theoretical basis of behavior therapy. We believe that behavior therapy is an extremely efficient procedure for the treatment of neurotic disorders; that it is based on certain principles derived from learning theory; and that it is unique in using basic scientific principles in psychology in the service of applied and practical ends. We believe that we are here dealing with much more than the advantageous use of serendipitous borrowings from nonexistent principles, the cookbook collection of precepts, methods, and working rules that happen to have lasting effects. We also believe that there is truly a general principle unde. rlying behavior therapy, rather than a varied mass of nonintegrated therapies that have little in common other than a name. These beliefs are often contes ted, but usually those who oppose them do so on the basis of misconceptions and misunderstandings that indicate a lack of knowledge of fundamental facts. It is the purpose of this book to remove these misconceptions and misunderstandings, and to bring up to date our knowledge in certain fundamental areas of learning theory, behavior therapy, and the biological foundations of per­ sonality and individual differences. There are three major groups of misconceptions and misunderstandings. The first of these relates to beliefs held by many psychiatrists and cognitive psychologists relating to behavior therapy.

• Depression
• Emotion
• Evaluation
• Motivation
• attention
• cognitive theory
• learning theory
• operant conditioning
• psychology

• Institute of Psychiatry, London, England

  Hans J. Eysenck, Irene Martin

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