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Article: Problems and solutions: Two concepts of mankind in cognitive-behavior therapy
- Article from:
- American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Article date:
- January 1, 2003
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Scientific theories that are concerned with experience and behavior of human beings, always include anthropological core assumptions. This applies in particular to psychotherapeutic theories. These anthropological core assumptions (i.e., concepts of mankind) affect techniques that are derived from these theories but they also have a great influence on acceptance and spreading of psychotherapeutic methods. This article examines the concept of mankind in cognitive-behavior therapy. In this connection two highly differing conceptions of the human being are identified: the early behavioristic black-box model and the conception of the human being as an actively performing subject ("man the ...