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It is really not very difficult to argue against an integration of psychodynamic and behavioral approaches. All one has to do is to define psychodynamic and behavioral in the right way, and they will indeed be incompatible. This the critics of integration have done, sometimes with flair and considerable sophistication. It will be the burden of this chapter to argue, however, that such criticisms do not really address the kind of integration I have proposed. They are, I suggest, articulate defenses of a less than satisfactory status quo and they impede the creative fusion that I believe is necessary for a major advance in psychotherapeutic efficacy and in the theoretical understanding on which such enhanced efficacy must be based.
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Wachtel, P.L. (1984). On Theory, Practice, and the Nature of Integration. In: Arkowitz, H., Messer, S.B. (eds) Psychoanalytic Therapy and Behavior Therapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2733-2_2
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