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The British Journal of Psychiatry (1972) 121: 281-285. doi: 10.1192/bjp.121.3.281
© 1972 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
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Social Imitation - A Neglected Factor in Psychotherapy?

MARTIN H. DAVIES M.A., M.D., M.R.C.Psych.1

1 Consultant Psychiatrist, All Saints' Hospital, Lodge Road, Birmingham, 18

Recent ideas about psychotherapy seem to be in favour of more flexible and pragmatic approaches. One result of this could be a resurgence of interest in techniques based on `social imitation'. Bandura has shown that `vicarious conditioning' and `modelling' play an important part in normal and abnormal personality development. There is now sufficient evidence that role playing and behaviour rehearsal can add to the effectiveness of existing behaviourist and psychodynamic methods to justify their increased use in clinical work and other `helping' situations such as crisis intervention.

Submitted on November 18, 1971






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