I Can’t if I Don’t Know How: B. F. Skinner, Humanism, ABA and Promoting Freedom

Applied Behavior Analysis, the science that grew from B. F. Skinner's philosophy of Radical Behaviorism, has been as misunderstood as its founder. Often called anti-humanistic or somehow taking away freedom and autonomy, Applied Behavior Analysis is actually the polar opposite of its mischaracterizations. In I Can’t if I Don’t Know How:B. F. Skinner, Humanism, ABA and Promoting Freedom, psychologist and BCBA Dr. Bobby Newman carefully examines the history of Applied Behavior Analysis and Skinner's writings. Combining these writings with personal stories from his career, Dr. Newman paints Applied Behavior Analysis in a new light, firmly planting it in the Humanistic tradition where it belongs. Far from removing freedom and autonomy, Dr. Newman shows how Applied Behavior Analysis actually increases freedom and autonomy. Read more