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Some epistemological remarks on behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis

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This article presents the thesis that beyond obvious differences and antitheses, psychoanalysis and behavior therapy have a common epistemological basis: associationism. It is cognitive therapy, which appears to have a different epistemological basis (rationalism and teleology),that reveals this unsuspected resemblance between psychoanalysis and behaviorism. These different epistemologies must be kept in mind when attempting to integrate cognitive therapy and behavior therapy.

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  1. University of Rome, Italy

    Giovanni Liotti

  2. University of Cagliari, Italy

    Mario Reda

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Liotti, G., Reda, M. Some epistemological remarks on behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and psychoanalysis. Cogn Ther Res 5, 231–236 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01193407

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