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Yet Skinner’s ideas were far from universally applauded. Although the soundness of his scientific work was seldom questioned, his far-reaching conclusions about human nature were repudiated by numerous influential critics. Noam Chomsky, Carl Rogers, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Arthur Koes- tler have repeatedly argued that Skinner’s behavioral engineering reduces humans to laboratory rats and controlled robots, stripping them of dignity and free will.
Living Walden Two : B. F. Skinner's Behaviorist Utopia and Experimental Communities
Hilke Kuhlman
All these reactions, and more, were a form of control—they saw something pretty and wanted it for themselves.
Not all childhoods prepare adults to love themselves enough to ensure their own safety, but this book offers creative methods to rewrite existing narratives.
Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare
Shahida Arabi
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