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Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
...Salter's veneration of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the physiologist who coined the term "conditioned reflex." (Pavlov's classic example: a dog which has heard a bell ring whenever it was fed will eventually drool whenever it hears the bell, even though no food is offered.) The behaviorist school is founded on what Salter calls "the firm scientific bedrock of Pavlov." Its main tenet: man is a creature of habit; he can be "conditioned" to the habit of not even hearing a pistol fired next...
...published in the Sigma Xi Quarterly. Dr. Hall, who though only 30 is chairman of the psychology division at Cleveland's Western Reserve University and who is also getting bald, has spent many of his adult years studying "emotionality" (inherent susceptibility to emotional stimuli). Some researchers, such as Behaviorist John Broadus Watson, have tried to show that emotional endowments are all the same at birth, that differences appearing later are due to environment...
...dear neighbor Rozzum Burns is a conscientious behaviorist. He classes Mr. Coolidge between an original and aboriginal. He says too there are a good many bulls still in the ring who seem to have lost their cuds. HARRISON BROWN...
Said Rabbi James G. Heller of Cincinnati: "Let the behaviorist and psychoanalyst beware. They may be able to use science for the dissection and description of matter, but they cannot use it to tell men why to live or how to live. Freud and Watson are old-fashioned and their psychology is under the overwhelming influence of Newtonian physics. That is of the past and of the past their conclusions based upon it will also...