Word: dogmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decry the emergence of identity politics and the thought-control techniques popularly called "political correctness." Both of these intertwined movements create a tendency for minorities to place ethnicity above individuality and huddle under banners that label them as victims of, rather than participants in, the larger society. "The multiethnic dogma," writes historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., "belittles unum and glorifies pluribus...
...with dozens of self-help survivor titles. By far the most controversial and best selling (more than 700,000 copies) of these books is The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis. In their 1988 publication, considered the bible of the recovered-memory movement, they include such dogma as "If you think you were abused and your life shows the symptoms, then you were," and "If you don't remember your abuse, you are not alone. Many women don't have memories . . . this doesn't mean they weren't abused." Like many of the authors of these self...
...French Society for Psychoanalysis, notes all this cultural hubbub in France and contrasts it with the assaults on Freud in the U.S. "What happened to Freudian psychoanalysis in America is the fault of American psychoanalysts," he says. "They froze things into a doctrine, almost a religion, with its own dogma, instead of changing with the times...
...much to ask that students at Harvard first consider their aims before invoking the now-canonized dogma "more women...
...rocking the foundations of reproductive biology. The long-haired, thirtysomething researcher speaks in the breathless, bubbly cadences of someone half her age, sees solutions to scientific problems in her dreams and doesn't even hold the almighty Ph.D. No matter. Like all good scientists, she specializes in challenging dogma and poking holes in foregone conclusions. "I was always interested in asking questions," she says...