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Posted by: Barry Stoller ( Utopia 2000 ) on October 13, 1998 at 01:58:38:

In Reply to: More thoughts on 'internal processes' posted by Barry Stoller on October 12, 1998 at 13:08:27:

: I would add that although behaviorism (in general) has left organic brain damage to its respective discipline(s), advocating behavioral approaches in some treatment of mental illness, some of what is known as mental illness has had environmental origins. One conspicuous example is, of course, 'borderline personality disorder' which afflicts (almost exclusively) young females with a definite history of sexual abuse. Skinner, writing in the 1950s, was circumspect but accurate...

My ADD comment was out of place; obviously prenatal drug abuse would be the cause of organic damage...


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