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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind

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Martin Sixsmith examines what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

Martin Sixsmith presents a history of psychology and seeks to understand what makes us think, feel and act the way we do.

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In Search of Ourselves: A History of Psychology and the Mind: Talking Cures?

25/04/2014

Talking Cures?

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Martin Sixsmith considers therapies that combined psychoanalysis and behaviourism.

Ellis, Perls and Rogers. Martin Sixsmith considers the therapists who combined psychoanalysis and behaviourism. From April 2014.

Martin considers some of the therapies that combined the psychoanalytic principles of Freud and Jung with the behaviour modifying techniques of the mid-Twentieth Century's other significant psychological movement 'behaviourism'.

With reference to the 'Gloria' tapes that featured the same patient being treated by three different 'talking cures' - Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy, Fritz Perls's Gestalt Therapy and Carl Rogers's Person Centred Therapy.

Series consultant, Professor Daniel Pick, Birkbeck, University of London.

Producer: Alan Hall
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