A Brief History of the Interiorization of Psychotherapy

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Abstract The nature of conscious interiority can be better appreciated if one traces how it configured the development of psychotherapy. In other words, this chapter historically contextualizes the relations between conscious interiorization and the emergence of treatments and interventions. It begins by examining the psychoanalytic discovery of the “psychological”; neo-psychoanalytic contributions; object relations theory; how behaviorism discarded introspection and conscious interiority; the legacy of behaviorism and neo-behaviorism; and the shift in treatment focus from objective behavior to subjective experience. This chapter also investigates the three waves of: (1) behavior therapy; (2) cognitive behavior and rational emotive behavior therapies; (3) and acceptance and commitment and dialectical behavior therapies. The interiorization of the humanistic tradition (client-centered therapy, existential therapy, and Gestalt therapy), as well as the downside of conscious interiorization, are also explored.

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