Behavior therapy as a test of psychoanalytic theory.
The author describes 4 patients in whom radically new symptoms appeared after intensive behavior therapy. He suggests that fresh symptoms are most likely to develop in a small minority of patients who are unable to learn more adaptive psychological defense mechanisms during or after behavior therapy and that psychoanalytic theory may help predict the nature of such symptoms.
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