title: [The contribution of behavior psychotherapy].
abstract: By means of this work it has been intended to establish some general principles related to the scientifics basis of psychotherapy and its relationship to psychology. These principles have been taken as sources for the framing of the behavior therapy and from the contribution that this therapy has given to the development of a psychotherapy based on experimental science. The scientifics basis helped to the outgrowth of the human knowledge, in particular to medical science, to which our interest is concerned. Simultaneously, the behavior therapy has been critically faced, making evident its probable fallibility; therefore a convergent point has been searched among different approaches for a future science of general principles that can be applied to psychotherapy in general. This convergent point is indispensable for its future development. We have specially insisted upon the impossibility of the use of the introspection as the unique path for a change on psychogenic disturbances of the personality, without denying its importance, but involving it, into the general context of the scientific psychology.
mesh_terms: D001521:Behavior Therapy; D006801:Humans; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000628:therapy
vernacular_title: El aporte de las psicoterapias conductales.