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Brendan Arnold Maher (31 October 1924 – 17 March 2009) was a psychology professor at Harvard University who pioneered the scientific study of psychology in the laboratory, and laid the groundwork for the study of psychology and its relationship to genetics.
- Joseph Zubin Award (1998)
- American
- 17 March 2009 (aged 84), Weston, Massachusetts
Presents an obituary for Brendan A. Maher, preeminent Harvard psychologist, whose writings and scientific contributions revolutionized the search for the causes of mental illness, died peacefully at home in Durham, North Carolina, on March 17, 2009.
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Oct 7, 2010 · Brendan’s scholarship centered on the complex theoretical and empirical problems surrounding human psychopathology, especially the mental illness known as schizophrenia. One of Brendan’s seminal contributions was to bring the experimental strategies of the laboratory to research in this domain.
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- Irving Gottesman
- Actual possession? Bearing in mind that nearly half the population believes that possession is a real thing, intellectual humility dictates that we at least entertain the possibility that demons and devils really exist and that they can inhabit the bodies of people and take control.
- Trance, dissociation, and ritual enactment. As with Catholic exorcism, spirit possession is a component of religious and other cultural rituals throughout the world, ranging from seances and the practice of “speaking in tongues” in the U.S. to the voodoo of Haiti and the sanghyang of Indonesia.
- Mass hysteria. It has long been recognized that outbreaks of group behavior attributed to demonic possession or witchcraft—manifested through fits, convulsions, and various vocal utterances—can be explained by the phenomenon of “mass hysteria,” “mass psychogenic illness,” or “mass sociogenic illness.”
- Psychosis and delusion. It’s not unusual for people with psychotic disorders to have the delusional belief that the devil or demons possess them. While such a belief can be thought of as an example of psychosis in itself, the late Harvard psychologist Brendan Maher proposed that delusional beliefs are merely reasonable explanations for “anomalous experiences.”
Apr 30, 2009 · Brendan Maher, scholar, former GSAS dean, dies at 84. April 30, 2009 1 min read. Brendan A. Maher, the Emeritus Edward C Henderson Professor of the Psychology of Personality in the Department of Psychology, died in his Durham, N.C., home on March 17, at the age of 84.
Jul 22, 2015 · Published: 22 July 2015. Experimental psychology: The anatomy of obedience. Brendan Maher. Nature 523 , 408–409 ( 2015) Cite this article. 22k Accesses. 119 Altmetric. Metrics. Brendan...
