Lewis Terman was one of the most influential innovators in educational psychology and IQ testing. He also believed that segregating and sterilizing "feebleminded" individuals - as determined by a biased paradigm of general intelligence - was the necessary path toward a better society. This is the second installment in our monthly series on very bad therapy through the decades.

Show Notes:

• The Uses of Intelligence Tests (Terman, 1916)
• The Vexing Legacy of Lewis Terman
• The Kallikak Family (Wikipedia)
• Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS)
• Very Bad Therapy: Website / Facebook