June 20, 2014

June 20, 2014

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Behaviorist

Dear Reader, 

 

Although very few people, due to the lack of reinforcement, have been able to carry on with Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), this writer was able to do so, because he never waited for anyone. This is not to say that he hasn’t often felt abandoned or rejected, but his ability to cope with that and to over time avoid that allowed him to continue with SVB. It wasn’t always immediately clear if those whom he left behind were right or if he was right and often he felt troubled and tormented about whether he had made the right decision. However, through the years it became apparent that his decision was inevitable and irreversible. 

This writer has been able to create and experience SVB moments with people from all walks of life. Regardless how challenging certain people might have been, he was always successful in achieving instances of SVB with them. Of course, he paid a price for this, but he was willing to pay this price because he was exploring SVB, which kept becoming more and more elaborate. This development was mainly visible to him and not to the many people with whom he tried to share his vision. 

There are only a handful of people who make it to this author’s seminars and after a seminar is over rarely anyone contacts him with the  purpose to learn about SVB. As long as he has known about it, it has always been his goal to teach SVB to others. He was able to learn more about it by trying to teach it. The fact that not many people are drawn to this author is no longer a source of frustration, as it used to be. By now, he has given so many seminars and teachings which have worked out well that he is convinced that he is on the right track. Moreover, there have been behaviorists, who have fully acknowledged that his work is indeed an important extension of the work of B.F. Skinner. This is important to this writer because he himself was attracted to behaviorism because it explained his work. SVB is best taught in class as part of a course about Radical Behaviorism.