Beyond behavioural and dynamic therapy.

Abstract

While historically major philosophical differences between the behavioural and dynamic approaches to therapy have existed, there is no necessary connection between metabeliefs and specific intervention techniques. Behavioural techniques can be used within a tragic vision of life and some psychoanalysts have a comic vision. Both camps want to achieve both objective and subjective changes but differ on how to achieve this. What is needed is a new, higher order theory that goes beyond both camps to help us understand the connections between cognitive, affective, and behavioural systems.