ABSTRACT
H. J. Eysenck is a prolific writer of immense scholarship who has a penchant for espousing some extremely dubious causes. Although there are about a thousand British academic psychologists, his publications alone account for an amazing one-tenth of all the citations they receive in learned journals. The most fundamental contribution of Eysenck himself to the solution of practical problems has perhaps been his support for the direct treatment of symptoms rather than fanciful underlying causes. His own learning-theory model of neurosis is considerably less liberated from the crude Watsonian assertion of conditioning than is Rachman's work, and differences of opinion concerning other developments, especially cognitive behaviour modification, abound. A large proportion of British work on behaviour therapy has emanated from Behaviour Research and Therapy, and many prominent academics and clinicians, now on both sides of the Atlantic, were under the Maudsley aegis at one time or another.
