چکیده (انگلیسی):

I am confused. How is it that I am reading an edited book on existential psychotherapy and I find a chapter coauthored by Steven C. Hayes, who might be (or at least has been) labeled as a radicalbehaviorist? After all, Hayes authored an article titled “Variables Influencing the Acquisition and Maintenance of Aggressive Behavior: Modeling Versus Sensory Reinforcement” (Hayes, Rincover, & Volosin, 1980), which seems a long way from the world of Rollo May, Victor Frankl, James Bugental, and Irvin Yalom. Some effort is needed to understand this incongruity and what it means for psychotherapy in the current context. The effort is worth it, in my mind—indeed, one could make the case, as Kirk Schneider, the editor of Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy: Guideposts to the Core of Practice does, that the effort is critical to the health and welfare of distressed persons seeking psychotherapy as well as to the field of psychotherapy itself.