ABSTRACT
After reading through these very divergent fourteen accounts, one may rightly ask if they enable one to come to any general conclusions — other than that behaviour therapy makes use of many different methods, and is applied to a great many different behavioural problems. It may be possible to derive some general conclusions, although of course these are predicated to some extent on the hypothesis that the cases here considered are not too dissimilar from those which behaviour therapists routinely handle. There is good reason to believe that such an hypothesis is acceptable; behaviour therapists will themselves be able to judge from their own experience whether this is correct or not. Given, then, that these cases are not entirely unusual or biased, we may use them to discuss what to many psychologists has become an important target for criticism, namely the medical model of mental disorder.
