Chapter 2: The Monster Study, or How to Gaslight Orphans in the Name of Science

Wendell Johnson was an American Psychologist whose childhood stuttering became the foundation for his later research. He believed that stuttering begins “not in the child's mouth but in the parent's ear.''

To provide evidence of his theory he needed to demonstrate that anyone, even a child with typical speech, could be trained to stutter.

You see where this is going, right?

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