Abstract
Salzman–s view of behavior therapy is not behavior therapy as it exists today. All that can be attempted in a few pages is a brief synopsis of what contemporary behavior therapy is about, leaving readers to draw their own conclusions. For Salzman, psychodynamic theory, in some form or another, represents the present best guess at truth, and behavior therapy is an occasionally useful tool to be judiciously deployed in a purely adjunctive capacity as the psychodynamic therapist thinks fit. Behavior therapy as described by Salzman appears naive, simplistic, and inappropriate for complex problems. Although it can play a limited role in the hands of the skilled clinician who appreciates the psychodynamic subtleties of the human psyche, behavior therapy can never function as an independent and mature therapeutic modality for anything beyond the simplest of problems.
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