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Ralph Franklin Hefferline: The Gestalt Therapist among the Skinnerians or the Skinnerian among the Gestalt Therapists?
Author(s) -
Knapp Terry I.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
journal of the history of the behavioral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.216
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1520-6696
pISSN - 0022-5061
DOI - 10.1002/1520-6696(198601)22:1<49::aid-jhbs2300220106>3.0.co;2-k
Subject(s) - gestalt therapy , gestalt psychology , psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , neuroscience , perception
Ralph Franklin Hefferline, who was an operant psychologist, co‐authored Gestalt Therapy with Frederick S. Perls and Paul Goodman. Hefferline's contributions to the development of biofeedback and conditioning without awareness are reviewed, and the influence of B. F. Skinner's analysis of private events on Gestalt Therapy is argued.