Monday, December 06, 2010

On Writer's Block

Passing on from the blog of my friend Bob Sutton, "The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of 'writer's block'," by Dennis Upper, a peer-reviewed paper published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis in 1974.

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Dec 6, 2010 12:28:11 PM | Reading, Whatever else

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