Wong (2006), and Wyatt and Midkiff (2006) focus on the social and economic factors that have promoted biological psychiatry and marginalized behaviorism in the contemporary treatment of problems in living and “mental illness.” I suggest an additional, perhaps even more central, reason is that biological psychiatry promises to increase autonomy while behaviorism is seen to constain freedom. If, ...

This article is a radical restatement of the predominant psychopathology, which is characterized by nosological systems and by its approach towards a neurobiological conception of the so-called mental disorders. The "radical" sense of this restatement is that of radical behaviorism itself. As readers will recall, "radical" applied to behaviorism means total (not ignoring anything that interests...

O predomínio de uma visão mentalista em nossa cultura traz algumas implicações, pois ao indicar um componente interno como causa, ocorre consequência discurso que culpabiliza o indivíduo produzindo e corroborando segregações pautadas aspectos socioeconômicos. Behaviorismo radical é contra esse modelo, tendo perspectiva monista antimentalista essa filosofia guia a Terapia Analítico-comportamenta...