Finding Aid for O. Hobart Mowrer Papers, 1928-82 | University of Illinois Archives

Title: O. Hobart Mowrer Papers, 1928-82

ID: 15/19/25

Primary Creator: Mowrer, Orval Hobart (1907-1982)

Extent: 4.3 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), recordings of psychotherapy sessions in Urbana-Champaign and at Galesburg State Research Hospital (1965-69), and photographs of Daytop Village, a rehabilitation center in New York for narcotics addicts (ca. 1965-68).

Note: Boxes 1-4 are available for research use; Box 5 is restricted.

RESTRICTED

Faculty Papers
Learning Theory
Mental Health
Religion
Therapeutic Counseling

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 1/30/1992

Access Restrictions: Because the tapes and transcripts in Box 5 contain information from counseling sessions, they are restricted from access until 2019. Persons wishing to use the tapes or transcripts before that time should submit a written statement of research interests and procedures to the University Archivist. The Archivist will provide access only after consultation with the head of the Psychology Department.

Other Note: 5 Pages

URL: https://files.archon.library.illinois.edu/uasfa/1519025.pdf

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