Self-Treatment of Writer's Block

Dennis Upper was a graduate of Yale University, a clinical psychologist at the Veterans Administration hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts, and the author of several learned texts in his field. He was also a poet.  In 2007, he published "Long Story Short: A Memoir."

In the early 1970's, finding himself psychologically unable to write, he determined to treat himself. He was, after all, himself a psychologist. It didn't work. As a scholar, he shared his experience with his peers by publishing "The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of Writer's Block," in the Fall, 1974, volume of the "Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis."

Here is that paper.  Click to embiggen.