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In this article, two experienced clinicians, trained in both psychoanalytic and behavioral paradigms, present cogent arguments for the advantages of a combined psychodynamic-behavioral approach by a single therapist or (for groups) a single team of cotherapists. They offer a number of clinical vignettes to illustrate their basic theme that the insight-seeking methodology of psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the change-producing techniques of behavior therapy form a complementary system. They assert that a conceptual as well as a clinical integration of the two approaches is not only possible but needed, in order to most fully utilize the data presented in the therapeutic process.
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Birk, L., Brinkley-Birk, A.W. (1980). Psychoanalysis and Behavior Therapy. In: Marmor, J., Woods, S.M. (eds) The Interface Between the Psychodynamic and Behavioral Therapies. Critical Issues in Psychiatry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3000-4_9
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