Table of Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Participants in the Nevada Conference on the History of the Behavior Therapies -- A History of the Behavioral Therapies -- Historiography -- References -- The Importance of Case Studies to Methodology of Science -- 1. Introduction: Historical Studies of Recent Science -- 2. Two Approaches to Scientific Method, Rule-Based and Case-Based -- 3. Case-based vs. Rule-based Problem Solving -- 4. Various Difficulties -- References -- Notes -- Joseph Wolpe: Challenger and Champion for Behavior Therapy -- Joseph Wolpe's Intellectual Development -- Developmental Milestones in Behavior Therapy -- Significant Publications -- Object Lessons for the Future -- References -- B. F. Skinner's Contribution to Therapeutic Change: An Agency-less, Contingency Analysis -- Intellectual Background -- Discovery of the Operant: Selection by Consequences -- Implications for Therapy - Direct Manipulation of Consequences -- Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior, Covert Behavior, and Feelings -- Influence of Skinner's Analysis of Verbal Behavior on Therapy -- Lessons for the Future -- Summary -- References -- Footnotes -- Jacob Robert Kantor (1888-1984): Pioneer in the Development of Naturalistic Foundations for Behavior Therapy -- Precis of Kantor's Life -- Kantor's Approach to Psychological Science -- A Summary of Kantor's System in Brief -- Kantor's Influences Upon the Behavior Therapies -- Interbehavioral Research -- Summary and Conclusions -- Postscript -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Child Behavior Therapy: Early History -- Introduction -- Intellectual Biography -- Important Developments in the Rise of Child Behavior Therapy -- Lessons Learned for the Future of Child Behavior Therapy -- Summary -- References -- Footnote -- Studies in Behavior Therapy and Behavior Research Laboratory: June 1953-1965 -- The Beginning.

Project Name Selection -- Operandum Design -- Symptom Recorders -- Reinforcer Search -- Conjugate Reinforcers -- Reinforcer Behavior Therapy -- Social Reinforcers -- Simultaneous Discrimination and Differentiation SIDAD -- Free Operant Equation, COLAB and IS - DID -- Ten Year Data Histories -- Seven Hour Drug Sessions -- Coextensive Reflex Emission -- Folly of Drug Screening -- Lab Visitors -- Research Trainees -- Awards -- Appliers Abandon Frequency -- References -- A Brief Personal Account of CT (Conditioning Therapy), BT (Behavior Therapy) and CBT (Cognitive-Behavior Therapy): Spanning Three Continents -- Conditioning Therapy -- Behavior Therapy -- Cognitive-Behavior Therapy -- References -- Swimming Against the Mainstream: The Early Years in Chilly Waters -- Multifaceted Applicability of Social Cognitive Theory -- Guided Mastery Treatments -- Self-Efficacy Theory -- Self-Regulatory Mechanism -- Self-Management Models with Social Utility -- Macrosocial Applications -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- The Rise of Cognitive Behavior Therapy -- Biographical Introduction -- Important Developments in the Rise of Cognitive Behavioral Therapies -- Case Study of Reactions to Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy -- Possible Object Lessons for the Future of Cognitive Behavior Therapy -- References -- From Psychodynamic to Behavior Therapy: Paradigm Shift and Personal Perspectives -- Introduction -- Formative Years -- The Search -- Maudsley Days -- The Dawn of Behavior Therapy -- Move to the USA, Start of the AABT, and Subsequent Developments -- The Times They are Indeed a Changin' -- Postscript -- References -- Cognitive Behavior Therapy: The Oxymoron of the Century -- Introduction -- Behavior Therapy -- Behavior Modification -- Cognitive Behavior Therapy -- Behavior Therapy in the Year 2001 -- References -- The Development of Behavioral Medicine.

Introduction to Behavior Therapy and the Experimental Analysis of Behavior -- An Example of Early Research -- The Underpinnings of Behavioral Medicine -- The Rise of Behavioral Medicine -- From Single Case to Multisite Studies -- Some Lessons for the Future -- References -- Toward a Cumulative Science of Persons: Past, Present, and Prospects -- 1968 Revisited: The Paradigm Challenge -- Early Hopes -- 1968 Challenges to Classic Dispositional Assumptions -- The Psychodynamic-Clinical Alternative -- Aftermath of the Challenge: Toward a Theoretical Integration -- A Conditional Approach to Dispositions -- Resolving the Consistency Paradox -- Condition-Behavior Stabilities: In Search of Local Predictability -- Beyond Stimulus Control: Why I Became a Cognitive Social Psychologist -- Overcoming Stimulus Control Through Self-Regulation -- References -- A Small Matter of Proof -- Intellectual Biography -- A Case Study of Two Articles by Baer, Wolf, and Risley -- Important Developments in the Rise of the Behavior Therapies -- References -- Do Good, Take Data -- The Origins of Applied Behavior Analysis -- The Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis -- My Version of Applied Behavior Analysis -- References -- Application of Operant Conditioning Procedures to the Behavior Problems of an Autistic Child: A 25-Year Follow-Up and the Development of the Teaching Family Model -- The Development of the Teaching-Family Model -- References -- The Active Unconscious, Symptom Substitution, & Other Things That Went 'Bump' in the Night -- Introduction and Overview -- Intellectual Autobiography -- Official Academic Genealogy -- Developmental Prelude -- Undergraduate Major in Psychology - University of Iowa: 1958-1960 -- Graduate School - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: 1960-1964 -- The Focal Study of Insight versus Desensitization (Paul, 1966).

Background and Preparation -- Design and Procedures -- Results -- Consequences of the Investigation -- Intellectual Autobiography: Afterwards -- Consolidation and Expansion -- Psychoses, Mental Hospitals, and Mental Health Systems -- Reflections and Recommendations -- Reflections -- Recommendations -- The "Ultimate" Answer -- References -- Footnote -- Values and Constructionism in Clinical Assessment: Some Historical and Personal Perspectives on Behavior Therapy1 -- My High School and College Years -- My Graduate School Years -- My Stony Brook Years -- The 1972 AABT Convention -- Being President of AABT in 1973-1974 -- The Context of My AABT Address -- Homosexuality: The Ethical Challenge -- We Only Want to Help -- The Myth of Therapeutic Neutrality -- Differences Do Not Imply Pathogens -- No Cure Without a Disease -- Clinical Problems as Clinicians' Constructions -- Discrimination, Hate Crimes, and the "Voluntary" Desire to Change Sexual Orientation -- A Proposal Regarding Sexual Reorientation Therapy -- Not Can but Ought -- Psychotherapy, Politics, and Morality -- Aftermath of The Paper -- Importance of My AABT Presidential Address -- Empirical versus Ethical Questions -- The Therapist as Secular Priest -- Liberalization on the part of the APA and APA re Homosexuality -- Fewer Requests for Sexual Reorientation and Fewer Articles in the Professional Literature -- Psychosocial Interventions as Part of Social Institutions -- References -- Footnotes.