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Contingencies of Reinforcement in Pizza Parlors and Psychoanalysis: Toward an Application of the Principles of Reward in Overcoming Resistance to Psychoanalytic Treatment
Ernst von Krankman, Ph.D. In both the pizza parlor and psychoanalysis businesses, the business owners have been traditionally faced with the problem of motivating the clientele to return. This is a dilemma particularly as both businesses pretty much depend on repeat customers. Wily pizza parlor managers, intrinsically pragmatic in nature, have had no hesitation in applying the scientifically based principles of the behavioral sciences in attempting to modify customer behavior to fulfill their own needs – [...]
On the Application of Clinical Psychology to Statistics: A Psychodiagnostic Case Study of the “the Standard Deviation”
Charles G. Middlestead, M.A. University of Maryland Once upon a time there was a family of statisticians called the Numburrs. They lived in an upper middle-class community, a safe town, where there was a low crime rate and small deviations. Eigen, the father, was known for being robust, and Alpha, the mother, was known for her significance in the community. Eigen and Alpha had two children: the daughter was named Anova and her brother was Chi. [...]
Etal Tells All: An Exclusive Interview With the World’s Most Prolific Scientist
Mike Dubik, M.D., and Brian Wood, M.D.Eastern Virginia Medical School As everyone knows, there is no more frequently referenced author in the sciences, arts, and humanities than Etal. Although often quoted, he is rarely seen outside his mythical ivory tower. Dr. Etal has granted us this rare and exclusive interview. Dr. Etal, please tell us about yourself. Only the shallow know themselves. (Wilde, O.) Well, tell us about your beginnings. It is popular today to say [...]
Streamlined Treatment in the Era of Managed Care: The Fast-Food-for-Thought Therapy Approach
Jane P. Sheldon, Ph.D. In our hectic, fast-paced world, clients cannot always afford the time it takes for traditional therapy. Additionally, managed care companies have shown a growing reluctance to pay for therapy services that require more than a few sessions of treatment, This has led to the development of a new, time- and cost-effective therapeutic approach, which takes its cue from the fast food industry. The following case study illustrates the effectiveness of this new [...]
Psychometric Infallibility Realized: The One-Size-Fits-All Psychological Profile
David A. Levy, Ph.D. Pepperdine University Throughout the 20th century, reliability and validity have been the dual goals of psychological testing. Although these standards were adequate for the clinician of yesteryear, they have failed to keep pace with the ever-growing demands of modern society. As we stand at the threshold of the 21st century, the time has arrived for psychological testing to come of age by setting its sights on the third, and most important, psychometric [...]
“Life to Go”: The Relationship of Country Music to Psychopathology
James M. Stedman, Ph.D. University of Texas Health ScienceCenter at San Antonio Victor S. Alpher, Ph.D. University of Texas Health ScienceCenter at Houston “I’m gonna live fast, love hard, die young, and leave a beautiful memory.” . . . “Jack Daniels, if you please, knock me to my knees.” . . . “My wife ran off with my best friend and I miss him.” What do these Country Music lyrics have to tell us about the [...]
[Editor’s Note: Have you ever wondered just how articles truly come about? The article below has a very interesting backstory. The authors initially submitted a different article to the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity®, and the Editor rejected the article. Shortly thereafter, the same authors submitted a new article for publication, entitled “Short-Term Cognitive Therapy for Authors of Rejected Manuscripts.” This delightfully written new piece was accepted for publication in the Journal of Polymorphous Perversity® and appears [...]
Maximum Security Amusement Parks (M-SAPs): A Modest Proposal for the Treatment of Adolescence
Lawrence G. Calhoun, Ph.D., W. Scott Terry, Ph.D., and Arnie Cann, Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Charlotte As we have argued elsewhere (Calhoun, Cann & Terry, 1988), and as everybody already knows, adolescence is a disease. While it apparently is not contagious, it can engender other disorders. For example, adolescence in a child can cause mental illness in a parent. However, in spite of the universal recognition that adolescence is a sickness that has existed [...]
A Subjective Assessment of the Oral Doctoral Defense Process in Psychology: I Don’t Feel Like Going Into It, If You Want to Know the Truth
Holden Caulfield, Ph.D. If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is what my independent variables were, and what I was measuring, and what sort of covariates and all I used during the analyses, and all that Campbell and Stanley kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, the design wasn’t all that interesting, [...]