Curt Richter
Subtitle: A Life in the Laboratory
Contributors: Paul Rozin (Foreword)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: May 5, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801880735
Subjects: Biography: general; Experimental psychology; Physiological & neuro-psychology; Richter, Curt Paul,; General; Biography; physiology; Biography / Autobiography; Psychology; Psychobiology, Experimental; Maryland; Neuroscience; Scientists - General; Medical / Neuroscience; Behavior; 1894-1988; Biological Clocks
First sentence: Curt Richter's vita, as written by him for his dissertation, reads: "Curt P. Richter was born February 20, 1894, in Denver, Colorado.
Description: "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."

"From identifying the biological clocks that govern behavior and physiology to observing the self-regulation of nutrient levels by the body, the cyclical nature of some mental illnesses, and the causes of hopelessness, Richter's wide-ranging discoveries not only influenced the burgeoning field of psychobiology and paved the way for later researchers but also often had implications for the treatment of patients in the clinic."--Jacket.