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Psychology Professor Harry Murray was one of those men. A clinician, Murray treated disorders like those which often make good movie subjects. In the early 1940s, however, the Harvard establishment didn't think those disorders were a good subject for psychology. Murray's colleagues were suspicious of developments beyond their laboratory. In his memoirs Professor Edwin G. Boring, who chaired the department during those years, calls "rescuing psychology from these philosophers," his "mission...
...drawl that has survived his years in Boston. "That led me to say, 'Well, gosh, anybody can tell whether a new baby's O.K. or not. What is it we're going by?' Then I began to put together all these things that any good clinician uses. Very little about the scale was really new. It was a compilation of a lot of clinical observations that hadn't been documented...
...described only in grays, not in black or white, says that it all depends on how sick the alcoholic is: "If you have a little bit of alcoholism, as if you have a little bit of diabetes, you can control it." But Vaillant warns, "By the time a clinician identifies a person as an alcoholic, it's almost always too late to return to social drinking." On this issue, Vaillant is supported by the National Council on Alcoholism. Says Dr. Sheila Blume, medical director of the N.C.A.: "The alcohol-dependent or loss-of-control alcoholic is not able...
...Clinicians of a more humanistic persuasion, such as Harry Stack Sullivan, have taken a much more positive view of homosexual and bisexual adaptations. A notable example of an enlightened clinician is Carl Rogers. Appearing last year as the Burton lecturer for the Graduate School of Education, Rogers stated his support for sexual variations, which he termed "lifestyles"; he repeated his belief that public opinion is in a process of positive change toward tolerance and acceptance...
...clinician, Jung pioneered in word-association techniques and dream analysis. The characters in his own dreams included Salome, Siegfried, Elijah, and once, Freud as an Austrian customs agent. Jung the theoretician made his name synonymous with such terms as archetype, introvert and extravert. Jung the religious healer believed the goal of psychiatry was to release and develop the divine within each individual. He broke with Freud by placing unsatisfied spiritual hungers rather than repressed sexuality at the center of personality disorders. Freudians could always counter that those pangs are just another symptom of stifled libido...