A Rejoinder to Leon Salzman

Abstract

What Salzman fails to appreciate is that I am not writing about specific psychodynamic and specific behavior therapists. My primary concern is with two distinct approaches that characterize psychodynamic therapists, on the one hand, and behavior therapists, on the other, regardless of their individual positions on either the psychodynamic or behavioral spectrum. Salzman is certainly correct in his contention that contemporary psychoanalysts and psychodynamic therapists are less rigid, more eclectic, and more open to new ideas than were their predecessors. And, as I have often tried to make clear, a similar state of affairs exists within the domain of behavior therapy.