Grandpa John

 

  In 1965, while working as a clinical psychology assistant at the then Anna State Hospital, Dick Laws, who was a clinical psychologist, let me browse through a brand new book of readings by Ullmann and Krasner called Case Studies in Behavior Modification. He told me that Nathan Azrin was using the first core course of a brand new master's program in Behavior Therapy offered by the Rehabilitation Institute at SIU. Dick told me that both he and his then-wife, Carol Painter, who also worked at Anna, were taking it and pursuing the new master's program. Both had master's degrees in rehabilitation counseling. The course started the following month. Dick encouraged me to take it. After I informed him I was not a graduate student, he told me I could petition the Graduate School Dean to approve taking it for undergraduate credit. It worked. The course was called Research Methods in Psychology. The other textbooks included Murray Sidman’s Tactics, Ullmann and Krasner’s Case Studie...