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But there is more. Sonoma State University in California has some lecture notes about J.B. Watson and his family:...although B.F. Skinner got to brag that his baby in a box grew up healthy and happy, Watsons application of science to child-rearing lacks that testimonial validity: William, the older of his and Rosalies two sons, committed suicide at age 40, just four years after John Watsons death.
http://a-s.clayton.edu/mccarty/PSYC3540 ... atson.html
Notice that stomach problems affected two of his sons. Watson was an advocate of scheduled feeding.11. THE END OF THE STORYhttp://www.sonoma.edu/users/d/daniels/Watson.html
- 1957 -- APA awarded Watson its highest order, the gold medal for distinguished lifetime contribution to psychology. Didnt go to the convention in person, but sent Billy to accept it on his behalf.
- Drank more and harder. Died in 1958 of chirrosis of the liver.
- Billy became a respected, successful psychiatrist in New York. Became Freudian and turned against his fathers behaviorism. His first suicide attempt was stopped by younger brother Jimmy. Second attempt was successful.
- Watson & Marys son Little John was a rather rootless person who often sponged on his father. Plagued throughout life with stomach trouble and intolerable headaches. Died in his early 50s of bleeding ulcers.
- Jimmy also had chronic stomach problems for years, but after intensive analysis is alive and doing well.
- John & Marys daughter Polly attempted suicide over and over and over and over.
- Grandaughter Mariette: We couldnt talk about feelings, we couldnt talk about affection, we couldnt talk about touching, but we could talk about sex. (Big Johns influence was keenly felt.) Years later, when I was crossing a congested boulevard in Los Angeles, I took Moms hand, but she pulled it away. Dont. People will think were lesbians. Went through therapy and appears from her biography to be living a reasonbly successful, healthy life.
Are you comparing human feelings to computer software???!!! Chemical imbalance theorists will love that! I'm sure half of them are computer nerds... by nature, if not by profession...There have been many abuses in Primal therapy and deep feeling therapies because you're dealing with primal feelings. In a way you can compare it to computer software. If the program isn't working according its potential, you can work your way around it or try to live with it.
Genetic theorists will tell you the source code is DNA!But if you know how to alter the source code, or know someone else who can, then any changes can be very beneficial or totally disastrous depending on the knowledge of the source code.
Alice Miller readers have been discouraged from coming here. Alice Miller rejected primal therapy twelve years ago. The title of this forum is Primal Theory and Practice. Maybe you can't change the address, but you could change the title... Overcoming Hidden Traumas - or something like that.I also believe Primal Theory underestimates the teen years. That's why this forum also deals with the discoveries that Alice Miller made.
Yes, and Primal Theorists will tell you the source is primal pain or primal feeling.Genetic theorists will tell you the source code is DNA!
True, and 6 years ago, she embraced it again, but not primal self-therapyAlice Miller rejected primal therapy twelve years ago.