Title: O. Hobart Mowrer Papers, 1928-82

Series Number: 15/19/25

Acquired: 1/30/1992

Volume: 4.3 cubic feet

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Locations for this record series:

Archives Research Center, 1707 S. Orchard Street
146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive
146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive

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Service Location	Boxes
Archives Research Center, 1707 S. Orchard Street	1-5
146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive	OS-24
146 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive	Photograph

Description:

Papers of Orval Hobart Mowrer (1907-82), professor of psychology (1948-75), including correspondence, publications, reprints, manuscripts, papers about Mowrer, photographs, an reel-to-reel audio recordings concerning GROW (Group Recovery Organizations of the World), a community mental health movement (1969-78); Mowrer's undergraduate years at the University of Missouri (1925-29), including his involvement in a controversy regarding a questionnaire on sexual attitudes; and Mowrer's research on vestibulocular functions, learning, language, psychopathology, the failure of religion and psychiatry to recognize sin and guilt as causes of neurosis, and mutual-help groups; and including a manuscript of Mowrer's autobiography (1971), recordings of psychotherapy sessions in Urbana-Champaign and at Galesburg State Research Hospital (1965-69), and photographs of Daytop Village, a rehabilitation center in New York for narcotics addicts (ca. 1965-68).

Note: Boxes 1-4 are available for research use; Box 5 is restricted.

RESTRICTED

Access Restriction: Because the tapes and transcripts in Box 5 contain information from counseling sessions, they are restricted from access until 2019. Persons wishing to use the tapes or transcripts before that time should submit a written statement of research interests and procedures to the University Archivist. The Archivist will provide access only after consultation with the head of the Psychology Department.

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