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...less serious ailments, the dispensaries have their own form of talk therapy. At No. 14, these take place in a large room lined with seven couches, beneath portraits of Pavlov and Freud, the contemporary giants of modern psychology. Pointing to Freud, Dr. Passer smiles and says...
...throw the dogs a meatball before each race," said Scott, adding that they receive no reward after the race. So much for Pavlov...
Apart from Pavlov and his dogs, Soviet psychiatry is perhaps best known for the breakthrough discovery of "sluggish schizophrenia" accompanied by "paranoid delusions of reforming society." This is a mysterious ailment, usually requiring sudden incarceration, that often strikes political dissenters in the U.S.S.R. Since the late '50s, when Khrushchev announced that "there are no political prisoners, only persons of unsound mind," the Soviets have relied on tame psychiatrists to label troublemakers insane...
...peanut butter, at the sound of a beeper. When it came time for the rats to start munching on Star Ernest Borgnine, who was smeared with peanut butter, they were even polite enough to stop with the peanut butter. The rabbits, by contrast, appear never to have heard of Pavlov. "We trained them in California to associate food with clicking sounds, so that they would head in any direction you clicked from," says Lepus Producer A.C. Lyles. "When we got to Arizona, we found they'd already forgotten everything we taught them." The rabbits also had a tendency...
...tradition in some quarters that they should be trained by rigid, authoritarian methods. Such was the notion in the academy for rookie policemen in the Los Angeles county sheriff's department. "We had been committed to a high-stress program," says Assistant Sheriff Howard H. Earle, "a Pavlov's-dog style of conditioning the trainee by stress so that he would not panic when he got into a stressful situation on the job." But as social attitudes changed during the mid-'60s, Earle wanted scientific evidence to determine whether this kind of training was indeed desirable...