Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Psychology Department O. Hobart Mowrer Papers Finding Aid Holdings Liberal Arts and Sciences Psychology Department O. Hobart Mowrer Papers Finding Aid Title: O. Hobart Mowrer Papers, 1928-82
ID: 15/19/25
Primary Creator: Mowrer, Orval Hobart (1907-1982)
Extent: 3.3 cubic feet
Arrangement: by type of material and alphabetically or chronologically thereunder
Subjects: Faculty Papers, Learning Theory, Mental Health, Religion, Therapeutic Counseling
Formats/Genres: Papers
Languages: English
Papers of Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-82), professor of psychology (1948-75), including correspondence, publications, reprints, manuscripts, papers about Mowrer, photographs, an reel-to-reel audio recordings concerning GROW (Group Recovery Organizations of the World), a community mental health movement (1969-78); Mowrer's undergraduate years at the University of Missouri (1925-29), including his involvement in a controversy regarding a questionnaire on sexual attitudes; and Mowrer's research on vestibulocular functions, learning, language, psychopathology, the failure of religion and psychiatry to recognize sin and guilt as causes of neurosis, and mutual-help groups; and including a manuscript of Mowrer's autobiography (1971), and photographs of Daytop Village, a rehabilitation center in New York for narcotics addicts (ca. 1965-68).
Repository: University of Illinois Archives
Finding Aid Revision History: Box 5, which contained recordings, transcripts, and notes of counseling sessions, was determined to fall under the category of "medical records" and was deaccessioned in September 2024.
Other Note: 5 Pages
URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1519025.pdf
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