ABSTRACT
The theoretical underpinnings of a helping process as broadly conceived as social treatment would require considerably more space than can be allotted in a single chapter. Psychoanalytic theory is the direct result of the scientific and clinical endeavors of Sigmund Freud. The treatment implications of psychoanalytic theory are numerous and far-reaching. In addition to psychoanalysis, a method of treatment developed by Freud himself, the theory has informed countless other therapies and methods of treatment. Basically, the view of man held by social learning theory is far less complex than that of psychoanalytic theory. Man is very much a product of his environment, and his behavior is the end result of many learning processes. Nurture rather than nature is the preeminent factor in later development. The principles of operant and respondent conditioning are addressed to two basic and fundamental ways by which humans learn and perform in environments.
