This book presents Dr. Goldiamond's reflections on various ways we formulate behavioral and emotional problems, most often in traditional terms of mental health disorders, mental diseases or illnesses, psychopathological disorders, and so on - what he calls a pathological orientation.
Israel Goldiamond, a pioneer in the field of behavioral psychology, was a professor in psychiatry, behavior sciences (biopsychology), medicine (committee on nutrition and nutritional biology), and Director of the Behavior Analysis Research Laboratory at the University of Chicago. Goldiamond was a fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association, and he served as the international president for the Association for Behavior Analysis from 1977 to 1978.
I. Introduction
II. The Analytic System to be used
i. Confusions between formulations
ii. Reactive and consequential relations
iii. Traditional and radical behaviorism
iv. Operationism and inner events
v. Other consequential systems
vi. Programing and paradigms
III. The Origins of Behavior Patterns
i. Sources
ii. Cultural inheritance
iii. Programing disturbing and undisturbing contingencies
iv. Programs for mental health/illness
IV. Societal Contingencies of the Pathology Model
i. The individual social selection parallel
ii. Contingencies of pathological ideology and alternatives
References
Appendix A - The Search for an Effective Clinical Behavior Analysis: The nonlinear Thinking of Israel Goldiamond