Annual Review of Behavior Therapy: Theory and Practice

Abstract

Jacob L. Moreno once published (1963) a reply to an article by Hans Eysenck, early pioneer in the behavioral therapy tradition, in which he pointed out some major similarities between his work and the approach to the treatment of psychopathology that Eysenck was advocating under the title of "behavior therapy." Behavior therapy has subsequently evolved through the coalescence of a number of diverse developments, primarily from ideas originating within the field of mainstream, empirical psychology. Despite some significant similarities in general approach (Sturm, 1965), and the obvious possibility that benefits could arise out of constructive rapprochement, psychodrama and sociometry are not among those "diverse· developments," although behavior therapists do make use of groups, role plays, and role modeling. That is too bad, for both approaches to the alleviation of human distress could probably have benefited from an interactive relationship.