Murray Sidman was not himself a clinician nor directly involved in clinical research. Nevertheless, his experimental and conceptual work, especially in the area of stimulus equivalence, profoundly influenced the development of clinical behavior analysis. Before his work on stimulus equivalence, clinicians with a behavior analytic world view working with verbally sophisticated humans, were making some progress in understanding clinical phenomena and in developing innovative therapies. However, given the obvious and predominant role of verbal processes in both the development and treatment of clinical problems, that progress was constrained by the existing behavior analytic account of verbal behavior. Most fundamentally, it was hard to understand how, in the apparent absence of direct training, verbal events, even novel verbal events, acquire the functions of the nonverbal events that they stand for or represent. Sidman's work on stimulus equivalence, especially the transfer (transformation) of functions, offered an answer and thereby provided a conceptual framework of symbolic behavior around which clinical behavior analysis could cohere and develop.

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Murray Sidman 对临床行为分析的贡献

Murray Sidman 本人既不是临床医生，也不是直接参与临床研究。然而，他的实验和概念工作，特别是在刺激等效领域，深刻地影响了临床行为分析的发展。在他研究刺激等效之前，具有行为分析世界观的临床医生与言语复杂的人类合作，在理解临床现象和开发创新疗法方面取得了一些进展。然而，鉴于语言过程在临床问题的发展和治疗中的明显和主导作用，这一进展受到现有的语言行为行为分析说明的限制。最根本的是，很难理解在明显缺乏直接训练的情况下，语言事件，甚至是新奇的语言事件，获得它们所代表或代表的非语言事件的功能。Sidman 关于刺激等效性的工作，尤其是功能的转移（转换），提供了一个答案，从而提供了一个象征性行为的概念框架，临床行为分析可以围绕该框架凝聚和发展。