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Empiricism in Psychotherapy: Behavioural Specification and Measurement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Gene Richard Moss  and
Robert Paul Liberman
Gene Richard Moss
Affiliation:
The Santa Ana Psychiatric Center, Santa Ana, California, and University of California, Irvine, California, U.S.A.
Robert Paul Liberman*
Affiliation:
Camarillo-Neuropsychiatric Institute Research Center, Camarillo State Hospital, Camarillo, California; Oxnard (California) Community Mental Health Center; and University of California at Los Angeles
*
Address reprint requests to Dr. Liberman at Camarillo- Neuropsychiatric Institute Research Center, Box A, Camarillo, California 93010, U.S.A.
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Psychotherapy can borrow an empirical base from behaviour technology, a discipline which involves the control and prediction of behaviour through environmental manipulation. Fundamental to the achievement of control and prediction is measurement.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 126 , Issue 1 , January 1975 , pp. 73 - 80
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1975 

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Footnotes

∗

This paper was presented at a Joint Panel on Integrating Psychodynamics with Behaviour Therapy sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis in Honolulu, Hawaii, May 1973. The work was supported in part by NIMH Research Grant No. MH 19880–03 from the Mental Health Services Researchand Development Branch.

The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors alone and should not be construed as reflecting the official policy of the Regents of the University of California, the California State Department of Health, or the Ventura County Health Services Agency.

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