title: A dynamic synthesis of analytic and behavioral approaches to symptoms.
abstract: The symptom-formation process involves a complex interaction between internal symbolic expression and secondary reinforcing consequences in the patient's environment. Symptoms are considered from a practical clinical perceptive integrating behavioral and analytic approaches and the implications for diagnosis, disposition, and treatment are outlined.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006185:Habituation, Psychophysiologic; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D010262:Paraphilic Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D012735:Sexual Dysfunction, Physiological / Q000628:therapy