Thoughts on Theories and Therapies: Some Bases of Comparison

Abstract

Six areas are singled out as useful bases for analysis in comparing different theoretical approaches to social learning: 1. general focus of the theory, 2. sources of motivation, 3. stages of development, 4. process of development and learning, 5. organization of personality, 6. content of what is learned. Several general approaches are compared: Psychoanalysis (in general and including bioenergetics), Behaviorism (including rational emotive and symbolic interactionism), Humanistic/experiential (including client centered and gestalt), and Transactional Analysis. Part I will discuss the differences and similarities of the approaches in the way each deals with the six areas, Part II discusses 3 of the major assumptions of learning theory, and Part III will discuss particular contributions each has made to TA and the new ways TA has expanded and developed these concepts.

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