Charles Ferster - Written Works

Written Works

Books

• Schedules of Reinforcement, with B.F. Skinner, 1957
• An Introduction to the Science of Human Behavior, with Nurnberger, J. I. & Brady, J. P., 1963
• Behavior Principles, with Mary Carol Perott, 1968; (Second Edition 1981, with Stuart A. Culbertson)

Articles

• Arbitrary and Natural Reinforcement 1967, The Psychological Record, 22, 1-16
• An Experimental Analysis of Clinical Phenomena 1972, The Psychological Record, 22, 1-16
• Clinical Reinforcement 1972, Seminars in Psychiatry, 4(2), 110-111
• A Laboratory Model of Psychotherapy 1979, In P. Sjoden (Ed), Trends in Behavior Therapy. New York, Academic Press
• Psychotherapy from the standpoint of a behaviorist, 1972, In J.D. Keehn (Ed.), Psychopathology in Animals: research and clinical implications. New York, Academic Press
• The Autistic Child
• Positive Reinforcement and Behavioral Deficits of Autistic Children, Child Development 1961, 32:437-456
• The use of the free operant in the analysis of behavior, 1953 Psychological Bulletin, 50, 263-274.
• The Development of Performances in Autistic Children in an Automatically Controlled Environment, Charles B. Ferster, Marian K. DeMyer, Journal of Chronic Diseases 1961 Apr; 13:312-4
• A functional analysis of depression, American Psychologist 1973, 857-870.
• The control of eating, In J. P. Foreyt (Ed.), Behavioral treatments of obesity (pp. 309–326). Oxford: Pergamon Press. Ferster, C. B., Nurnberger, J. I. & Levitt, E. E. (1977).