Socialisation

Abstract

‘Personality and Psychotherapy’ is something of a classic in the annals of psychological literature. John Dollard, a clinical psychologist of Freudian persuasion, collaborated with Neal Miller, an experimental animal psychologist, to produce a book that integrated these very different points of view. In it they discuss the learning of normal and abnormal human behaviour, regarding psychotherapy as the application of the same principles of learning to the unlearning of inadequate neurotic behaviour and the relearning of more appropriate ‘normal’ behaviour.