Maurice K. Temerlin

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Maurice K. Temerlin
Born(1924-01-15)January 15, 1924
Oklahoma, U.S.
DiedJanuary 15, 1988(1988-01-15) (aged 64)
Oregon, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
Known forWork with Lucy, Research into Effects of Diagnostic Labels
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology, psychotherapy
InstitutionsUniversity of Oklahoma

Maurice K. Temerlin (January 15, 1924 – January 15, 1988), was a psychologist and author.

Life[edit]

Research[edit]

Suggestion Effects of Psychiatric Labels[edit]

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Temerlin published a series of articles examining the effect of diagnostic labels.[1][2][3] Temerlin and his colleagues asked clinicians to evaluate and diagnose a man. Before making their diagnosis, they were told that an 'expert' had previously diagnosed the individual as 'psychotic'. The man was in fact a mentally healthy individual who was a confederate of the experimenters. Even though the man did not present with symptoms of psychosis, many clinicians agreed with the 'expert' diagnosis.

Work with Lucy[edit]

With his wife Jane W. Temerlin, Temerlin raised a chimpanzee named Lucy who was owned by the Institute for Primate Studies at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma. Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy in their home as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. She was taught American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts as part of an ape language project. Temerlin wrote the book Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapist's Family, analyzing the chimp's behaviour and describing her life.[4]

'Psychotherapy Cults'[edit]

Temerlin collaborated academically with his wife on articles, including "Psychotherapy Cults: An Iatrogenic Perversion," which was published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and Practice.[5] The work remains highly regarded, and is cited by numerous academicians, including Robert S. Pepper,[6][7] Michael Langone,[8] Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn,[9] David A. Halperin, and Arnold Markowitz,[10] and Dennis Tourish and Pauline Irving.[11]

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapist's Family, Temerlin, Maurice. 1976 ISBN 0-8314-0045-5
  • Labelling Madness, Contributor, "Suggestion Effects in Psychiatric Diagnosis," Thomas J. Scheff, (ed.), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975.
  • The Social Psychology of Clinical Diagnosis, University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Psychology 1966

Articles[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Temerlin, Maurice (October 1968). "Suggestion Effects in Psychiatric Diagnosis". The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 147 (4): 349–353. doi:10.1097/00005053-196810000-00003. ISSN 0022-3018. PMID 5683680. S2CID 36672611.
  2. ^ Temerlin, Maurice K.; Trousdale, William W. (1969). "The social psychology of clinical diagnosis". Psychotherapy: Theory, Research & Practice. 6 (1): 24–29. doi:10.1037/h0088712. ISSN 0033-3204.
  3. ^ Temerlin, Maurice K. (April 1970). "Diagnostic bias in community mental health". Community Mental Health Journal. 6 (2): 110–117. doi:10.1007/BF01434656. ISSN 0010-3853. PMID 5520453. S2CID 25129737.
  4. ^ Temerlin, Maurice. (1976) Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapists Family ISBN 0-8314-0045-5
  5. ^ "Psychotherapy Cults: an Iatrogenic Perversion," Temerlin, Maurice & Temerlin, Jane. (1982). Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice., 40: 131-140
  6. ^ Psychoanalytic Training Institutes as Cults: An example of Entropy, Robert S. Pepper, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Volume 22, Number 1 / March, 1992
  7. ^ Treatment with Unethical Practitioners; Caveat Emptors, Robert S. Pepper, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Volume 27, Number 3 / March, 1997
  8. ^ Clinical Update on Cults Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, by Michael D. Langone, Psychiatric Times, July 1996 Vol. XIII Issue 7
  9. ^ Destructive Cults: A View From the Inside, Changes: The Psychology and Psychotherapy Journal Volume 3 # 1, 1984, By Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn
  10. ^ Halperin, D. A., & Markowitz, A. (1991). "Residential treatment: The potential for cultic evolution". Cultic Studies Journal, 8(1), 46–60.
  11. ^ Irving, P., & Tourish, D. (1995). "Group influence and the psychology of cultism within re-evaluation counselling: a critique". Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 8(1), 15-30.
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