Maurice K. Temerlin

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

Life

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Research

Suggestion Effects of Psychiatric Labels

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Temerlin published a series of articles examining the effect of diagnostic labels.^[1][2][3] Temerlin and his colleagues asked clinicians to evaluate and diagnose a man. Before making their diagnosis, they were told that an 'expert' had previously diagnosed the individual as 'psychotic'. The man was in fact a mentally healthy individual who was a confederate of the experimenters. Even though the man did not present with symptoms of psychosis, many clinicians agreed with the 'expert' diagnosis.

Work with Lucy

With his wife Jane W. Temerlin, Temerlin raised a

• 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
• Diagnostic Bias in Community Mental Health, Community Mental Health Journal, Volume 6, Number 2 / April, 1970

See also

• Lucy (chimpanzee)
• List of cult and new religious movement researchers

References