Maurice K. Temerlin

Maurice K. Temerlin
Born	January 15, 1924(1924-01-15) Oklahoma, United States
Died	January 15, 1988(1988-01-15) (aged 64) Oregon, United States
Residence	Oregon, United States
Nationality	American
Fields	psychology, psychotherapy
Institutions	University of Oklahoma
Known for	Lucy Temerlin, famous ape APA Taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control "Psychotherapy Cults: An Iatrogenic Perversion"

Maurice K. Temerlin (January 15, 1924 – January 15, 1988), was a psychologist and author.

His contribution "Suggestion Effects in Psychiatric Diagnosis," in the 1975 Thomas J. Scheff edited work Labelling Madness has been cited in the 1980 "Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science"^[1], and is referenced in the course "Perceptions of Mental Illness", at Brown University^[2].

With chairman Margaret Singer, Temerlin served on the APA taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, from 1983 to 1986.^[3].

With his wife Jane W. Temerlin, Temerlin raised Lucy Temerlin, a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, Oklahoma, in their home. Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table. She was taught American Sign Language by primatologist Roger Fouts as part of an ape language project. Temerlin wrote the book Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapist's Family, analyzing the chimp's behaviour and describing her life^[4].

Temerlin collaborated academically with his wife on articles, including "Psychotherapy Cults: An Iatrogenic Perversion," which was published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice^[5]. The work remains highly regarded, and is cited by numerous academicians, including Robert S. Pepper^[6][7], Michael Langone,^[8], Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn^[9], David A. Halperin, and Arnold Markowitz,^[10], and Dennis Tourish and Pauline Irving^[11].

Publications

Books

• Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapist's Family, Temerlin, Maurice. 1976 ISBN 0-8314-0045-5
• Labelling Madness, Contributor, "Suggestion Effects in Psychiatric Diagnosis," Thomas J. Scheff, (ed.), Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1975.
• The Social Psychology of Clinical Diagnosis, University of Oklahoma, Dept. of Psychology 1966

Articles

• "Some Hazards of the Therapeutic Relationship", Jane W. Temerlin, M. S. W., Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph. D., Cultic Studies Journal
• "Psychotherapy Cults", Margaret Thaler Singer, Ph.D., Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D., Michael D. Langone, Ph.D., Cultic Studies Journal, 1990, Volume 7, Number 2, pages 101-125
• Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, Margaret Thaler Singer, University of California Berkeley; Harold Goldstein, National Institute of Mental Health; Michael D. Langone, American Family Foundation; Jesse S. Miller, San Francisco, California; Maurice K. Temerlin, Clinical Psychology Consultants, Inc.; Louis J. West, University of California Los Angeles, November 1986
• "Psychotherapy Cults: An Iatrogenic Perversion", Temerlin, Maurice & Temerlin, Jane. (1982). Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice., 40: 131-140
• Diagnostic Bias in Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Journal, Volume 6, Number 2 / April, 1970

See also

• Lucy Temerlin
• List of cult and new religious movement researchers

References

1. ^ Proceedings of the Oklahoma Academy of Science, Volume 60—1980, "Madness and Politics: The Case of James Forrestal," Mary Akashah and Donald Tennant, Department of Sociology, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074,
2. ^ "Perceptions of Mental Illness", Phil Brown Brown University, Spring 1998, Sociology 125, "3. The Medical Model -- Critics and Defenders".
3. ^ Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, November 1986., Margaret Singer, chair; Harold Goldstein, National Institute of Mental Health; Michael Langone, American Family Foundation; Jesse S. Miller, San Francisco, California; Maurice K. Temerlin, Clinical Psychology Consultants, Inc.; Louis Jolyon West, University of California Los Angeles.
4. ^ Temerlin, Maurice. (1976) Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapists Family ISBN 0-8314-0045-5
5. ^ "Psychotherapy Cults: an Iatrogenic Perversion," Temerlin, Maurice & Temerlin, Jane. (1982). Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice., 40: 131-140
6. ^ Psychoanalytic Training Institutes as Cults: An example of Entropy, Robert S. Pepper, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Volume 22, Number 1 / March, 1992
7. ^ Treatment with Unethical Practitioners; Caveat Emptors, Robert S. Pepper, Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy, Volume 27, Number 3 / March, 1997
8. ^ Clinical Update on Cults, by Michael D. Langone, Psychiatric Times, July 1996 Vol. XIII Issue 7
9. ^ Destructive Cults: A View From the Inside, Changes: The Psychology and Psychotherapy Journal Volume 3 # 1, 1984, By Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn
10. ^ Residential Treatment: The Potential for Cultic Evolution, David A. Halperin, and Arnold Markowitz
11. ^ Group Influence and the Psychology of Cultism Within Re-evaluation Counselling: a critique, Dennis Tourish, Robert Gordon University and Pauline Irving, University of Ulster.

External links

• Report of the APA Task Force on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, Margaret Thaler Singer, University of California Berkeley; Harold Goldstein, National Institute of Mental Health; Michael D. Langone, American Family Foundation; Jesse S. Miller, San Francisco, California; Maurice K. Temerlin, Clinical Psychology Consultants, Inc.; Louis J. West, University of California Los Angeles, November 1986

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Name	Temerlin
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Date of birth	January 15, 1924
Place of birth	Oklahoma, United States
Date of death	January 15, 1988
Place of death	Oregon, United States