ABSTRACT
The first key case, whom author termed 'The Charitable Lady' was very similar to the aforementioned woman who had responded to Wolpe's 'behaviour therapy'. Wolpe agreed to conduct the therapy behind a one-way mirror. Author's enthusiasm for the active techniques that he subsequently christened 'behaviour therapy' continued to grow, and he was won over to Wolpe's theoretical and practical position. In referring to the fact that Ellis had based an entire system of psychotherapy on the rational correction of the faulty assumptions and illogical philosophies which may underlie maladaptive behaviour, Wolpe and Lazarus stated: 'Behavior therapists, by contrast, regard rational corrections as, in most instances, merely a background to the specific reconditioning of reactions that usually belong to the autonomic nervous system'. In Multimodal Therapy, the construction of a modality profile serves as a template or 'blueprint' that guides the course of therapy and points to the range of probable interventions.
