Michael - I'll leave that interesting question to the historians on this listserv, but I'll advance one hypothesis (maybe others can confirm or refute): Perhaps Watson was trying to counterpose his case against Freud's Little Hans case of a phobia supposedly acquired through psychoanalytic mechanisms. ...Scott
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