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Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology

Dr. Wyatt is an expert in several areas including forensic psychology (he is board certified); assessment of child sexual abuse; and tactics of the pharmaceutical industry and of organized psychiatry as they work together to promote the biological causation theory of mental disorders and medications as the first line of treatment.

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Dr. Wyatt is an expert in several areas including forensic psychology (he is board certified); assessment of child sexual abuse; and tactics of the pharmaceutical industry and of organized psychiatry as they work together to promote the biological causation theory of mental disorders and medications as the first line of treatment.

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Psychiatry and Psychology, Behavioral Disciplines and Activities, Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms, Mental Disorders, Other Psychiatry and Psychology, Psychology, Applied Behavior Analysis, Biological Psychology, Child Psychology, and Other Psychology

Forensic Psychology, Child Sexual Abuse, Behavior Analysis, and Pharmaceutical and Psychiatry Industries’ Impact on Mental Health Practice

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Assessment of likelihood of a school shooting incident

Psychology Faculty Research (2013)

W. Joseph Wyatt

After considering the profiles of several shooters, consideration is given to the efficacy of using a profile to predict future ...

Medicalization of Mental Disorders: 1970- to the Present

Psychology Faculty Research (2013)

W. Joseph Wyatt

A thirty-five year escalation of emphasis on biological causation has rendered, for many, medications as the treatment of choice for ...

Medicalization of Depression, Anxiety, Schizophrenia, ADHD, Childhood Bipolar Disorder and ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2013)

W. Joseph Wyatt

Clearly, a number of psychological and behavioral disorders arise within our biology. These include autism, Down’s syndrome, those due to ...

Fraudulent therapies in psychology: The enduring value of science.

Psychology Faculty Research (2012)

W. Joseph Wyatt

Therapy is an effort, based upon scientifically derived principles, to optimize the ration of positive-to-negative reinforcers, for the individual and ...

What to do, now that big pharma and psychiatry have ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2010)

W. Joseph Wyatt

Organized Psychiatry and the pharmaceutical industry have worked toward a mutually reinforcing cultural zeitgeist, to wit: the majority of psychological/behavioral ...

Has Behavioral Science Tumbled Through the Biological Looking Glass? Will ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2010)

Donna M. Midkiff and W. Joseph Wyatt

Time constraints and professional demands leave practicing professionals unlikely to enroll in extended training such as a semester-long graduate course. ...

Behavior Analysis in the Era of Medicalization: The State of ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2009)

W. Joseph Wyatt

Recent decades have witnessed an increase in biological explanations of common disorders such as depression and anxiety, a phenonmenon termed ...

Ethical issues in the provision of online mental health services

Psychology Faculty Research (2008)

Donna M. Midkiff and W. Joseph Wyatt

A number of ethical and legal implications of on-line therapy [e-Therapy] are examined. e-Therapy is defined and its strengths and ...

Psychiatry’s thirty-five-year, non-empirical reach for biological explanations

Psychology Faculty Research (2007)

W. Joseph Wyatt and Donna M. Midkiff

This is our third article in a series that began with a special issue of Behavior and Social Issues in ...

A Behavior Analytic Look at Contemporary Issues in the Assessment ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2007)

W. Joseph Wyatt

The assessment of child sexual abuse has largely been ignored by behavior analysts, although behavior analytic theory and methodology, if ...

Biological psychiatry: A practice in search of a science

Psychology Faculty Research (2006)

W. Joseph Wyatt and Donna M. Midkiff

The rise of the biological causation model in the past thirty years is traced to psychiatry’s efforts to regain lost ...

Six-to-one gets the job done: Comments on the reviews

Psychology Faculty Research (2006)

W. Joseph Wyatt and Donna M. Midkiff

We are pleased to note that six of the seven responses to our article were marked by approval, and/or thoughtful ...

When we were Boy Scouts

Psychology Faculty Research (2006)

W. Joseph Wyatt

Before I was old enough to be a Boy Scout, I yearned in vain to join my scoutmaster-dad as he ...

What was under the McMartin Preschool? A review and behavioral ...

Psychology Faculty Research (2002)

W. Joseph Wyatt

The McMartin Preschool child abuse case began in 1983 in Manhattan Beach, California, and was one of the most visible ...