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Abraham Kaplan, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(3):325-330.

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LET ME first raise a question that will immediately be recognized as philosophical: What are we doing here? How does it come about that the category of the normal has been so much neglected in psychiatry, that we are here at a conference on new directions in research on normal behavior, as though we stand at the frontier of a new territory which one might expect to have been explored long ago?

One answer that immediately presents itself is that this neglect of the normal is a result of training, to which Strauss¹ has already directed attention. What is produced by training is not only a set of skills and intellectual resources, but also something very well designated as trained incapacity. There are some things that we cannot do well, just because of the other things that we have been trained to . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Ann Arbor, Mich

From the Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 1, 1967.

Remarks made at the Conference on New Directions in Research on Normal Behavior, Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Sept 30, 1966.

Reprint requests to University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich 48104 (Dr. Kaplan).

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