Meyer, Watson, and the dangers of behaviorism

Abstract

Between 1908 and 1920 Adolf Meyer and John Watson were colleagues and quasicollaborators at Johns Hopkins University. This article investigates the relationship between the two men by focusing on three crucial episodes in the history of their association, culminating in the incident that forced Watson's departure from academic life. Throughout the article emphasis is placed on the significant differences, amounting at last to open conflict, between Meyer's functional approach in psychiatry and Watson's behaviorist doctrines.

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