September 2, 2014
Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Behaviorist
Dear Reader,
With Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), this writer continues reading,
studying and extending Skinner’s Radical Behaviorism. Amazingly, in 2012 he
discovered B.F. Skinner, whose works explain SVB. After reading about and being
reinforced by behaviorism, he then found Behaviorology, the natural science of
human behavior. When this writer set out to study psychology, he had done so
because he was convinced that SVB is a natural and not just some mystical process.
While finding out about behaviorology, this writer was
able to personally connect with three board members of The International
Behaviorology Institute (TIBI): Fraley, Ledoux and Ferreira. With each of these scholars he continues to have positive relations and each of them
encouraged him to fully dive into behaviorology. As a consequence of these
exciting contacts, this writer feels understood, approved and increasingly changed.
Especially, that he is not causing his own behavior is having a major effect on him.
It fascinates this writer that a separation of disciplines had to
occur and that behaviorology moved away from psychology, which is permeated by
non-natural and fundamentally mystical perspectives.
In 2012, this writer withdrew from an non-supportive Ph.D. program, which, based on what they called the Scientist-Practitioner Model, was educating him to become a Clinical Psychologist. In retrospect, it is evident that Palo Alto University (PAU) is an institution that is founded upon unscientific, agential mentalism, which behaviorists and behaviorologists eschew. No one showed any interest at all in this writer's passion for SVB, which led him study psychology. He was literally told by the director to put his passion on a hold and to earn his Ph.D. by aligning himself with the arrogant researchers who teach at PAU. When this writer eventually withdrew from the Ph.D. program, it was a sad affair, but he never regretted his withdrawal because it allowed him to come in contact with behaviorism.
In 2012, this writer withdrew from an non-supportive Ph.D. program, which, based on what they called the Scientist-Practitioner Model, was educating him to become a Clinical Psychologist. In retrospect, it is evident that Palo Alto University (PAU) is an institution that is founded upon unscientific, agential mentalism, which behaviorists and behaviorologists eschew. No one showed any interest at all in this writer's passion for SVB, which led him study psychology. He was literally told by the director to put his passion on a hold and to earn his Ph.D. by aligning himself with the arrogant researchers who teach at PAU. When this writer eventually withdrew from the Ph.D. program, it was a sad affair, but he never regretted his withdrawal because it allowed him to come in contact with behaviorism.
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