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Healing Psychology's Own Motivational Conflicts: A Comment on Miller's “Ethics of Motivational Intervention”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

Martin Seager
Martin Seager
Affiliation:
Princess Alexandra Hospital, Essex
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Abstract

In an earlier edition of this journal (vol. 22, 111–123) William R. Miller persuasively defends his motivational interviewing approach (Miller, 1983) against the claim that it is “manipulative”, at least in the pejorative sense of that term. This critique of Miller's methods and his response to it is explored as a new manifestation of a longstanding conflict between (cognitive) behaviourism and psychoanalysis, a conflict that seems to lie at the very heart of psychological science, restricting the professional development of us all. It is argued that our own discipline could benefit from some form of motivational intervention to enable cognitive-behaviourists and psychodynamicists to communicate genuinely and more fully with each other. Some suggestions for steps in this direction are provided.

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Research Article
Information
Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1995 , pp. 341 - 343
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1995

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