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Psychiatry and Behavioural Psychotherapy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Isaac Marks*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London SE5 8AF

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Although behavioural psychotherapy is a potent therapeutic technology which is now the approach of choice in perhaps 25 per cent of neurotic patients (12 per cent of adult psychiatric outpatients), many psychiatrists are still reluctant to use it as part of their armamentarium in the clinical management required in everyday practice. At least four factors contribute to this resistance.

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