A 1924 pioneer looks at behavior therapy
1975; Elsevier BV; Volume: 6; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1016/0005-7916(75)90096-8
ISSN1873-7943
Autores Tópico(s)Psychology Research and Bibliometrics
ResumoTHE CITY of Philadelphia is about to commemorate 200th anniversary of founding of our country. We are here to observe 50 yr of behavior modification therapy. It is appropriate for us to review spirit of times when basic theoretical model for this movement germinated. I t was in 1913 that John B. Watson, founder of behaviorism, published in Psychological Review what Woodworth termed the Behaviorist Manifesto. The same year Watson's Psychology from Standpoint o f a Behaviorist appeared. Art article in Scientific Monthly, coauthored in 1921 by Watson and his wife, Rosalie Rayner Watson, first described his observations and experiments with children. What was going on outside psychological laboratory at this time? Henry Ford put in his first assembly line for model T in 1913. World War I broke out in Europe in 1914. In 1917 United States joined what Woodrow Wilson termed crusade to make world safe for democracy. Young women rejected corsets, shortened their skirts, shingled their hair, smoked cigarettes, joined men in mixedgroup drinking at speakeasies, were frank about their petting, and advocated more tolerance toward divorce (Allen, 1952). Their mothers worried about Freudian influence.
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