And this has what to do with his position as a psychologist?
On May 7, 2010, at 7:56 AM, <[email protected]> <[email protected]> wrote:
And who wishes he wasn't. It's the lead author of this early controversial work with the eminent behavior modifier Ivor Lovaas: Rekers GA, Lovaas OI (1974). Behavioral treatment of deviant sex-role behaviors in a male child. Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis, 7, 173-90. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311956/ Nowadays, such work would be considered to have grave ethical problems. But that was then, and we've come a long way. (Wikipedia has an interesting short paragraph on the issue under "Professional practice of behaviour analysis"; see "Historical controversies: homosexuality). And here's why Dr. Rekers is now in the news: http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8093 ...which has attracted the attention of news commentator Stephen Colbert (See video at http://tinyurl.com/Rekers-Colbert-USA ) In Canada: http://tinyurl.com/Rekers-Colbert-Canada Stephen
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