Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...researchers argue that alien abductions may be disguised memories of sexual abuse. Others assert that abduction memories may also be unwittingly planted by over-zealous therapists. "I believe these victims believe it," says Ray Hyman, professor of psychology at the University of Oregon. "People are trying to please the hypnotist. The therapist and patient collaborate with each other to produce the story." Hypnosis can be extremely effective in eliciting fantasies that therapists can use in treating patients. The technique, however, can also create false memories. Says Ray William London, president of the American Boards of Clinical Hypnosis...
...them guided by therapists, who suddenly remember what they allegedly years or decades ago repressed (see following story). Although Freud almost certainly would have regarded most of these charges with withering skepticism, his theory of repression and the unconscious is being used -- most Freudians would say misused -- to assert their authenticity...
Proponents of Reich's proposal assert that it would help those who currently earn the minimum wage. It's certainly true that some will benefit from a wage increase of 12 percent. But surely, others will not appreciate a decrease of 100 percent...
...proposed Russian constitution will play a significant role in this choice, but it will not be crucial. Constitutions do not make or break nations--leaders do. Even the universally-lauded United States constitution would have been in trouble had George Washington decided to aggressively assert presidential power; instead he set a stable course by showing restraint. The French Fifth Republic further demonstrates the malleability of constitutions; every French president since Charles De Gaulle has molded the constitution in a particular direction...
...question is how Mansfield could dare to presume to cast judgment upon an entire group of people--a group of people who have nothing more in common than their desire to love one another. You discuss narcissism in your essay. I can think of nothing more narcissistic than to assert that one's own identity is by definition better than that of another's. I can think of nothing more shameful...