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...recent months, BRI, which was created by Matthew L. Israel '54, has found itself under fire from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation, advocates for the disabled and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It has also been the topic of a CBS special and the target of a bill in the state legislature designed to prevent aversive therapies...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Harvard Grad's School Draws Strong Criticism | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Harvard is connected to BRI on several levels: its founder trained...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Harvard Grad's School Draws Strong Criticism | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

When Israel founded the BRI in 1971, he appliedSkinner's ideas to the treatment of the mentallyhandicapped, creating an elaborate system ofrewards and punishments for patients there...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Harvard Grad's School Draws Strong Criticism | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

Proponents of BRI's program, including parentsof patients there, say BRI is saving people'slives...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Harvard Grad's School Draws Strong Criticism | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

...main aversive therapy BRI uses is electricshock, delivered by a device called the GraduatedElectronic Decelerator that 58 out of BRI's 62students wear on their bodies...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, | Title: Harvard Grad's School Draws Strong Criticism | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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