---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [tips] : info:Joseph Wolpe Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2007 21:19:52 -0500
>The irrepressible Michael S. asked: > >> >> Wolpe, who hailed from South Africa ,furthered the cause of the >> behavior mod technique of systematic desensitization.I am tempted >to >> assume that he was a leading figure of that paradigm. It seemed >that >> initially he published with another behavioral engineer. And some >> kind of a rift (disagreement) between Wolpe and several behavioral >> engineers took place ,and then he went at it alone. >> If anyone recalls special details ,do send info my way. > >I'm not aware of any rift between Wolpe and others (which doesn't >mean it >couldn't be). What I recall is that rather than being a "leading >figure" >of systematic desensitization, he actually invented it, all by >himself. > >I also recall that he initially used psychodynamic techniques but >soon >realized how useless they were (so was the "rift" with Freud?). While > >systematic desensitization was his own baby, he did credit earlier >work >by Masserman with cats as providing the impetus for his work. He also > >gave full credit to Jacobsen for developing the method of deep muscle > >relaxation he used to counter-condition to anxiety. > >In my first year studying psychology, I was assigned his remarkable >"Psychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition" (1958), the first >description of >systematic desensitization, and one of the earliest sustained forms >of >behaviour therapy. It blew my mind. > >Stephen >----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen:The other character was Lazarus.For a while Wolpe's systematic desentization text was out of print.And I vaguely recall an issue around this.I still have Jacobsen's relaxation text. Michael Sylvester,PhD Daytona Beach,Florida --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
