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

Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]


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