Word: braaten
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a very practical reason why we as Christians need a theology of revolution. Without it we will be at a total loss about what to do for the rest of the century. -Carl Braaten, The Future...
Good grades, Psychologist Leif J. Braaten and Psychiatrist C. Douglas Darling told the American Psychological Association, are not merely the sign of a successful student. The man who gets high marks, the Cornell University researchers said, is also the man most likely to attempt suicide...
...significant relationship between the urge to self-destruction and sex, marital status, nationality or religion. Bright students who felt they had academic difficulties simply "measured themselves according to their own standards, which were higher than those of the university." Anytime a student confesses to thoughts of suicide, said Drs. Braaten and Darling, university health officials should be alert for trouble. "Even a student who is intellectualizing about suicide should be carefully assessed." His motives, the researchers reported, are likely to be: 1) a desire to "destroy himself because he can no longer tolerate the discrepancy between how he appears...