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Orval Hobart Mowrer
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References
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470479216.corpsy0566/abstract;jsessionid=35C7FBD61A720E1F25413149A233D8D6.f02t02?deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=&userIsAuthenticated=false
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orval_Hobart_Mowrer
Personality
The Social Problem
Very Depressing Life
Motivated
Highly successful
Intelligent
Attitude!
Family
Grew up on the family farm.
Father Died when he was 13.
Which changed his life radically
(Still did well in high-school even though depressed).
Met his wife, Willie Mae (Molly) at Hopkins during his time at Yale.
They Served together as houseparents at a residential home for infants and children. Mowrer used the home as an informal behavioral science laboratory
History
Contributions
- published a series of 19 papers concerning vestibule-ocular reflexes and spatial orientation
- theoretical and research interests in the psychology of learning, language, psychopathology, certain cognitive processes, and interpersonal relations that importantly influenced his subsequent career.
Born- January 23, 1907
Died- June 20, 1982)
Lived- Unionville, Missouri.
School- University of Missouri in 1925
1934 Mowrer began work at Yale University (Where he met his wife)
1940 worked at Harvard(Social Relations)
1944 War Work
1948 Research position at University of Illinois
Mowrer began his college years as a conservative Christian, but lost his faith as he adopted progressive and scientific views prevalent in academia.
Commited Suicide at the age of 75
3 years after his wife passed.
Integrity Therapy
After Mowrer's positive experiences as a result of his disclosures to his wife in 1945, he began to counsel students using several simple premises: that neurotic people often are being deceptive in some way with people they care about; that they suffer from conscience pangs but resist or repress the prompting of the conscience; and that this causes their symptoms. When Mowrer was counseling someone who could not be induced to confess anything of significance, he would "model" confession for them by disclosing something from his own life. Group therapy was coming into fashion, and although most groups were dominated by the same psychotherapeutic ideas Mowrer had rejected, he saw hope of using groups in a way that would increase the opportunities for confession and emotional involvement.