Notable Psychology & Psychiatrists Posters “S...-”
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Notable psychologists and psychiatrists ~

Virginia Satir
b. 6-26-1916; Neillsville, WI
d. 9-10-1988

Psychotherapist Virginia Satir is known for her family therapy work and organizational change studies as well as her system of thought serving as one of the models for Neuro-linguistic programing (NLP). The terms “presenting issue” and “Becoming More Fully Human” are associated with her.

Virginia Satir quotes ~
• “The family is a microcosm. By knowing how to heal the family, I know how to heal the world.”
• “We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth.”
• “Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.”

B. F. Skinner
b. 3-20-1904; Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
d. 8-18-1990

Burrhus Frederick Skinner is best remembered for his experimental analysis of behavior and his influence on education practices. He proposes that many techniques produce the opposite of the desired effects such as punishment for not giving the desired answer results in students who learn to avoid.

Skinner's Walden Two, following Thoreau's Walden, proposes a lifestyle that encourages minimal consumption, rich social relationships, personal happiness, satisfying work and leisure, not competition and social strife or war.

B. F. Skinner quotes ~
• “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.”
• “Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.”
• “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
• “We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
• “I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.”
• “Teachers must learn how to teach ... they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.”

Harry Stack Sullivan
b. 2-21-1892; Norwich, NY
d. 1-14-1988; Paris

Harry Stack Sullivan, described as “the most original figure in American psychiatry”, challenged Freud's psychosexual theory and founded the interpersonal theory of psychiatry, which emphasized the role of interpersonal relations, society and culture as the primary determinants of personality development and psychopathology.

Harry Stack Sullivan quote ~
• “When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security, then the state of love exists. Under no other circumstances is a state of love present, regardless of the popular usage of the term.”