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Our radical behavioral interpretation of psychotherapy leads to the unexpected conclusion that the psychotherapeutic relationship is at the core of the therapeutic process. Unexpected, we say, because others usually cast radical behaviorism in the opposite camp, one in which the therapist avoids or discounts the value of a deep, emotional therapeutic relationship. Carl Rogers, for instance, commented, “To me [Skinner’s world] would destroy the human person as I have come to know him… in relationship… in the deepest moments of psychotherapy” (1961, p. 391).
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Kohlenberg, R.J., Tsai, M. (2007). Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. In: Functional Analytic Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70855-3_7
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