Abstract
Behavior therapy is extraordinarily diverse in its theoretical approaches, research methods, and therapeutic techniques. The diversity has raised problems in generating a uniform definition of behavior therapy that adequately reflects the multifaceted nature of the field and at the same time accurately portrays the many different approaches. The present paper examines the nature of contemporary behavior therapy by presenting many misconceptions about its distinguishing features (fictions), discrepant views, approaches, and theoretical orientations within the field (factions), and some of the important contributions that behavior therapy has made to psychology in general (functions). Elaborating the fictions, factions, and functions of behavior therapy not only conveys the diversity within the field but also the evolution of what behavior therapy is as an area of research and practice.
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