Psychoanalytic and Behavioristic Approaches Toward Depression: A Synthesis?
Abstract
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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