Title: Curt Richter : a life in the laboratory /
Authors: Schulkin, Jay.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Richter, Curt Paul.; Richter, Curt Paul,; Psychology; Biological Clocks; Behavior physiology; Psychobiology, Experimental Maryland Biography.
Abstract: "In the first half of the twentieth century, psychology was a discipline in search of scientific legitimacy. Debates raged over how much of human and animal behavior is instinctive and how much is learned, and how behavior could be quantified accurately. At the Johns Hopkins University's new Phipps Psychiatric Clinic, Curt P. Richter stood aside from these heated arguments, choosing instead to apply his data-collection methods, innovative measurement techniques, playful sense of exploration, and consummate surgical skill to laboratory examinations of the biological basis of behavior."
Contents: Origins and orientation -- Biological clocks and spontaneous behaviors -- Ingestive behaviors and the internal milieu -- A psychobiological perspective on the domesticated and the wild -- Neurobiological investigations and clinical applications -- An artisan in the laboratory.