Maurice K. Temerlin was a psychologist

Psychologist

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 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", and is referenced in the course "Perceptions of Mental Illness", at Brown University

Brown University

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With chairman Margaret Singer

Margaret Singer

Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, was a clinical psychologist and a part-time Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, U.S....

, Temerlin served on the APA taskforce on Deceptive and Indirect Techniques of Persuasion and Control, from 1983 to 1986..

With his wife Jane W. Temerlin, Temerlin raised Lucy Temerlin

Lucy Temerlin

Lucy Temerlin was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane W...

, a chimpanzee

Chimpanzee

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 owned by the Institute for Primate Studies at the University of Oklahoma

University of Oklahoma

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 at Norman, Oklahoma

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, 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

American Sign Language

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 by primatologist Roger Fouts

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 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.

Temerlin collaborated academically with his wife on articles, including "Psychotherapy Cults: An Iatrogenic Perversion," which was published in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice. The work remains highly regarded, and is cited by numerous academicians, including Robert S. Pepper, Michael Langone

Michael Langone

Michael D. Langone, is an American counseling psychologist who specialises in research about "cultic groups" and alleged psychological manipulation. He is executive director of the International Cultic Studies Association, editor of the journal Cultic Studies Review.Langone is author and co-author...

,, Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn, David A. Halperin

David A. Halperin

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, and Arnold Markowitz

Arnold Markowitz

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,, and Dennis Tourish and Pauline Irving.

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
  Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
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  , 1975.
• The Social Psychology of Clinical Diagnosis, University of Oklahoma
  University of Oklahoma
  The University of Oklahoma is a coeducational public research university located in Norman, Oklahoma. Founded in 1890, it existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two became the state of Oklahoma. the university had 29,931 students enrolled, most located at its...
  
  , 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

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