In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Temerlin published a series of articles examining the effect of diagnostic labels.
[1][2][3] Temerlin and his colleagues asked clinicians to evaluate and diagnose a man.
Temerlin and his wife raised Lucy in their home as if she were a human child, teaching her to eat with silverware, dress herself, flip through magazines, and sit in a chair at the dinner table.
Temerlin wrote the book Lucy: Growing Up Human: A Chimpanzee Daughter in a Psychotherapist's Family, analyzing the chimp's behaviour and describing her life.
[5] The work remains highly regarded, and is cited by numerous academicians, including Robert S. Pepper,[6][7] Michael Langone,[8] Guy Fielding and Sue Llewelyn,[9] David A. Halperin, and Arnold Markowitz,[10] and Dennis Tourish and Pauline Irving.