Behaviourism is described as the study, the analysis and modifications of behaviours interacting with the milieu: a unit of methods and applications is noted and a theoretical body of behaviour changes is emphasized. In the clinic, the objective attitude and statement that psychopathology is the science of abnormal behaviours and not the science of mental states, contrast behaviourism with other methods such as psychoanalysis. In therapy and revalidation, behaviourism is one of the individual or group psychological reeducation method.
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