Case Studies in Behavior Modification.

Case Studies in Behavior Modification. Edited by Leonard P. Ullman and Leonard Krasner. Price, not given. Pp 401. Holt, Rinehart two sec¬ tions concern themselves with neurotic disturbances, personality disorders, and psychophysiologic dis¬ orders ; last two sections deal with behavior dis¬ orders in children and with a variety of applications in field of mental retardation. editors in their introduction take same position Eysenck did in his book, namely that psy¬ chotherapy is based on premises which so far have escaped scientific validation and that visible results of behavior therapy, at least in terms of symptom removal, are as good and permanent, if not better than results of psychotherapy. Where Eysenck, however, could see similarity between psychoanalytic and his own, and ends his presentation with a plea for cooperation between psychiatrists and psychologists, present writers take a more extreme position. They discuss what they call The medical model in 13 pages and con¬ trast it with The psychological model to which they devote 46 pages. In discussing the medical model they criticize concept of a disease under¬ lying symptoms, not dyadic relationship with