Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the respondents have reasonably serious phobias. "They know as well as we do what the problem is. It's not some general neurosis, but a narrowly specific fear. Our approach," he said, "will be behavior therapy, not psychotherapy. In other words we don't put people on a couch and bring in a bearded German doctor with a notebook...
...Extremely shy, unable to control their tempers, insatiably hungry and thirsty (drinking water out of toilet bowls is one sign), they crave bizarre food substitutes for the love they miss. Indeed, when doctors can find no organic cause for a stunted child, they look for strange behavior as the key to diagnosis. Although few parents are candid about an unhappy home, researchers have compiled a list of typical situations, including alcoholism, sexual incompatibility, illness, beatings, unemployment and unwanted pregnancies...
...Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation with Maharishi, the groovy guru. "I got there," Mia remembers, "and it was just the same zoo all over again. It was scary in the Himalayas, although...
...Reds, the Whites, the Blacks, the Jews." At its extreme, Laing warns apocalyptically, the "demonic group mysticism" of We-Them can evolve into a "brotherhood unto death," as in Nazi Germany. "Induce people all to want the same thing, hate the same thing, feel the same threat, then their behavior is already captive," says Laing. "You have acquired your consumers or your cannon-fodder." He calls We-Them "the ethic of the Gadarene swine," and its cataclysmic credo is "to remain true, one for all and all for one, as we plunge in brotherhood to our destruction...
...dust and lead fumes. Recent technological advances have brought new hazards faster than old ones have been controlled. Manufacturers have long since stopped using mercury in the production of men's hats, thus eliminating the "hatter's shakes" disease that may well have accounted for the peculiar behavior of the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Until the problem was brought under control recently, other garment workers faced a potential health danger from inhaling fumes from the formaldehyde contained in permanent-press fabrics. According to an official government compilation, U.S. workers are exposed to no fewer than...