Thanks, Rick McKnight, for the wonderful resource of Classics in Psychology. I immediately went to it to find the Watson-Rayner paper, and found it interesting and a little frightening. Especially noted the final two paragraphs of their paper:
>>The Freudians twenty years from now, unless their hypotheses change, when they come to analyze Albert's fear of a seal skin coat - assuming that he comes to analysis at that age - will probably tease from him the recital of a dream which upon their analysis will show that Albert at three years of age attempted to play with the pubic hair of the mother and was scolded violently for it. (We are by no means denying that this might in some other case condition it). If the analyst has sufficiently prepared Albert to accept such a dream when found as an explanation of his avoiding tendencies, and if the analyst has the authority and personality to put it over, Albert may be fully convinced that the dream was a true revealer of the factors which brought about the fear. >>It is probable that many of the phobias in psychopathology are true conditioned emotional reactions either of the direct or the transferred type. One may possibly have to believe that such persistence of early conditioned responses will be found only in persons who are constitutionally inferior. Our argument is meant to be constructive. Emotional disturbances in adults cannot be traced back to sex alone. They must be retraced along at least three collateral lines - to conditioned and transferred responses set up in infancy and early youth in all three of the fundamental human emotions. (Watson & Rayner, 1920) Beth Benoit University Systems of New Hampshire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ on 10/15/02 12:22 PM, Richard R. McKnight] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Those interested in the original "Little Albert" paper can find it at > http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/ . The paper does indeed mention a > plan to use genital stimulation of the child. Also, the "Little > Peter" paper by Mary Cover Jones is available at the same location. > > ******************************* > Richard McKnight (Rick) > Department of Psychology > Nicholls State University > Thibodaux, LA 70310 > (504) 448-4359 > FAX (504) 448-4926 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ******************************* > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
