Posted by Dinah on March 30, 2005, at 19:51:59
In reply to Re: Back to Spanos » Dinah, posted by alexandra_k on March 28, 2005, at 2:53:17
I was reading my book about the dependent patient today and they were discussing behavioral therapy (as opposed to CBT). In particular they were talking about extinction techniques. It made me feel like I should wag my tail and bark. It made me sooooo mad that I wanted to go out and start some behaviors that they'd want extinguish, never mind stopping ones because of their pathetic systems of reinforcement and lack of reinforcement. They did have the grace to say that it was primarily designed for classroom use, or inpatient use, where the environment could be closely controlled. And also that if was of limited value in changing long term behavior. But geeeeez, what a horrible view they have of people.
It's enough to put me in charity with cognitive-behavior therapy.
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