| Abstract: | Deviations of behavior induced in animals by motivational conflicts can be alleviated by pharmocologic, environmental and dyadic or group retraining procedures analogous to those employed clinically. To be successful in humans, basic therapeutic modalities involving rapport, anamnestic review, cognitive reorientations and guided rehabilitation should resonate with universal and urgent (Ur) aspirations for physical vitality, social security and existential serenity.Adapted from a Plenary Address to the Eighth World Congress of the World Psychiatric Association, Athens, Greece, October, 1989.Past President, American Psychiatric Association and Honorary Life President, World Association for Social Psychiatry. |
