Richard Gilbert: 4 books

This article marks the centenary of the founding of the approach to the study of human and other behavior known as behaviorism, often considered to have occurred in 1913. The story of behaviorism is largely, although by no means entirely, the story of Burrhus Frederick Skinner (1904-1990), who is...

This is a novel of ideas, particularly ideas about psychology and philosophy. It’s also a novel about the politics and circumstances of a particularly unsettling year – 1939 – and about travel at that time. The main character is an imagined young B.F. Skinner, who became the most influential...

How We Change Volume II describes how individuals change in the course of relationship-oriented psychotherapy. The model it presents draws upon principles of human development and combines psychodynamic and humanistic perspectives on change.

How We Change Volume 1 provides a comprehensive overview of the major theories of psychological change. It discusses the childhood formation of identity, explores the range of experiences in adult development that have the potential to bring about significant changes in an individual’s life, and...