psychotherapy:

Hard as it is to believe, during the early Twentieth Century, a whole school of mental health professionals decided that unconditional love was a terrible thing to give a child. The government printed pamphlets warning mothers against the dangers of holding their kids. The head of the American Psychological Association and even a mothers’ organization endorsed the position that mothers were dangerous—until psychologist Harry Harlow set out to prove them wrong, through a series of experiments with monkeys. Host Ira Glass talks with Deborah Blum, author of Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection. (9 minutes)

Love at Goon Patk is a great telling of how a whole research program was established and the ways in which scientific results can shape our behavior.

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    oh goodness. oh yes cc if you’d be kind enough...share on google reader cool links which...

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    Love at Goon Patk...whole research program was established

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    Harlow’s monkey’s are one...my fave psych experiments. So cute.

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