ABSTRACT
In discussing the training of behavior therapists, the first requirement is to define behavior therapy. This is not easy. The very composition of the present group of symposiasts illustrates that behavior therapy is not a single homogeneous doctrine. I think it is fair to say that Dr. Ayllon and I lean toward an operant and Skinnerian approach as much as Drs. Wolpe and Franks lean toward a Pavlovian and neo-Hullian model. Dr. Wolpe in his new book with Arnold Lazarus (1966) says some things about psychotics which I find inconsistent with work such as that by Lovaas et al. (1965, 1966) and by Graziano and Kean (1967) with autistic children and work with adult psychotics such as that by Ayllon and Azrin (1965) and Atthowe and Krasner (1968). Such differences, however, do not detract from behavior therapists. The point simply is that behavior therapy is not a pure school or pure social movement, and let us hope it never will be.
