I don't think Lovaas had a stunning ego whatsoever. Someone on this
listserv had mentioned the rather odd fact that the NYT's had delayed
their obituary of Lovaas for three days. I suspect they wanted their
/fact checkers/ to make sure this guy was as accomplished and productive
in his work with autistic children as had been claimed--as behavioral
strategies are so frequently misunderstood and unjustly maligned.. Now
Beth, consider a Hitler type personality who at the age of 4 is
reinforced only for prosocial behavior and given extinction for all
anti-social behavior? Could that not have altered the impact of his
abusive childhood? As some of you might be aware, Hitler was beaten on
a regular basis by his father , and some sources claim on a daily basis,
sources below. As a relevant tangent, do any of you recall that a
production of Hitler's life was planned for HBO or PBS but was canceled
as it provided some objective information about his abusive childhood.
I guess many folks prefer to believe the "bad seed" theory as opposed to
the influence of violence in a child's early years. Please do check out
the sources provided below as my guess is that many of you are not aware
of Hitler's brutal childhood.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Childhood
http://www.thefamouspeople.com/profiles/adolf-hitler-8.php
Joan
Joan Warmbold Boggs
jwarm...@oakton.edu
Beth Benoit wrote:
I just finished reading another obituary for O. Ivar Lovaas, which
ended with this astounding statement:
To the end of his career, Dr. Lovaas was adamant that applied behavior
analysis was supremely useful in childhood interventions of all kinds.
“If I had gotten Hitler here at U.C.L.A. at the age of 4 or 5,” he
told Los Angeles magazine in 2004, “I could have raised him to be a
nice person.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/health/23lovaas.html
I don't know whether this is a result of a stunning ego,
underappreciation on my part, or maybe he was misquoted, like Freud in
his statement about the Nazis. What think you?
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
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