Frases de Harry Harlow

Harry Frederick Harlow foi um psicólogo estadunidense mais conhecido por seus experimentos de separação maternal, dependências e isolamento social com macacos Rhesus. Estas experiências revelaram a importância do cuidado e do companheirismo no desenvolvimento cognitivo. Ele conduziu a maior parte de suas pesquisas na Universidade do Wisconsin-Madison, onde trabalhou com o psicólogo humanista Abraham Maslow por um curto período de tempo. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. Outubro 1905 – 6. Dezembro 1981
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Harry Harlow: Frases em inglês

“The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.”

originally published in "The Nature of Love" https://books.google.ca/books?id=e10mee-djCUC&pg=PA673&lpg=PA673&dq=The+little+we+know+about+love+does+not+transcend+simple+observation&source=bl&ots=p1ez0bTQib&sig=BH1fmd9ZXLJ3h3pDHwIFdchsnnU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj04cSaxsTQAhXLx1QKHQ9bAgoQ6AEIJjAB#v=onepage&q=The%20little%20we%20know%20about%20love%20does%20not%20transcend%20simple%20observation&f=false, American Psychologist, volume 13, number 12, December 1958
Contexto: Love is a wondrous state, deep, tender, and rewarding. Because of its intimate and personal nature it is regarded by some as an improper topic for experimental research. But, whatever our personal feelings may be, our assigned missions as psychologists is to analyze all facets of human and animal behavior into their component variables. So far as love or affection is concerned, psychologists have failed in this mission. The little we know about love does not transcend simple observation, and the little we write about it has been written better by poets and novelists.

“In the first place I have an enormous regard for common sense. Any time we discover some great thing and it contradicts common sense, we better go back to the laboratory and check it.”

in interview with Carol Tavris, as cited in Love According To Harry Harlow http://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/love-according-to-harry-harlow#.WE2jv33d7cs, t the Association for Psychological Science's Observer, by Deborah Blum, January 2012.

“Not even in our most devious dreams could we have designed a surrogate as evil as these real monkey mothers were.”

on the parental behavior of monkeys whose social behaviors he had destroyed in their infancy.
as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002

“Apathetic Annie was complacent and serene
Though suffering from paresis,
Consumption and gangrene
But Annie did not really care
Though life was nearly gone
For Annie had a tumor of the diencephalon.”

an attempt to describe symptoms in poetry, while studying medicine at Stanford University in 1924
as quoted in Love at Goon Park https://books.google.ca/books?id=obODAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT26&lpg=PT26&dq=%22though+suffering+from+paresis%22&source=bl&ots=KLAHZqLzIR&sig=7U5NnYVatwD7LVa9ot5hrtfh828&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwii-YTTysTQAhWhgVQKHfY3CKEQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22though%20suffering%20from%20paresis%22&f=false, by Deborah Blum.

“Because that's how it feels when you're depressed.”

when challenged on the design of his "vertical chamber apparatus".
as quoted in Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, by Deborah Blum, Perseus Publishing, 2002

“In our study of psychopathology, we began as sadists trying to produce abnormality. Today, we are psychiatrists trying to achieve normality and equanimity.”

Harlow, H.F., Harlow, M.K., Suomi, S.J. From thought to therapy: lessons from a primate laboratory. 538-549; American Scientist. vol. 59. no. 5. September–October; 1971.

“Harry Harlow and his colleagues go on torturing their nonhuman primates decade after decade, invariably proving what we all knew in advance: that social creatures can be destroyed by destroying their social ties.”

Wayne C. Booth, Modern Dogma and the Rhetoric of Assent, Volume 5, of University of Notre Dame, Ward-Phillips lectures in English language and literature, University of Chicago Press, 1974, p. 114.