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The American Journal of Psychiatry, VOL. 128, No. 3

Articles | September 01, 1971

Psychoanalytic and Behavioristic Approaches Toward Depression: A Synthesis?

WALLACE WILKINS

Am J Psychiatry 1971;128:358-359.

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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla. 33124

1972, American Psychiatric Association

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Psychoanalytic and behavioristic explanations of psychopathological states are considered mutually incompatible. Despite this tradition of opposition, the psychoanalytic explanation of depression as a loss of object gratification is similar to the behavioristic description of it as a decrease in reinforcement. Sharing concepts and focusing on basic similarities between the two schools may be mutually profitable.

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