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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though not prone to inspirational speeches or exuberant displays of emotion, Eckert has his own method of leadership...

Author: By Jonathan Finer, | Title: Mike Eckert: Quiet a Leader | 4/28/1995 | See Source »

Through the use of rapid breathing, powerfulmusic and mandalas, Grof's holotropic breathingtechnique allows people to "explore the deeperrealm of the psyche," according to Mack, who nowuses this method with some of his patients...

Author: By Lana Israel, | Title: Mack: Scientist Or Tale-Spinner? | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...They do not recognize that they've reproducedextravagant stories that are easy to get people toconfabulate," says Richard J. Ofshe, a socialpsychologist at the University of California atBerkeley. "Hypnosis is a wonderfully powerful andinteresting method of influence, and not torecognize that can be very foolish...

Author: By Lana Israel, | Title: Mack: Scientist Or Tale-Spinner? | 4/19/1995 | See Source »

...almost every chapter, an excerpt from a famous or important primary source is quoted. Sections of Havelock Ellis'Sexual Inversion, for example, explain the methods of the famed "sexologist." The unsettling passage from E.M. Forster's Maurice in which a troubled young man confesses his homosexuality to a dismissive, unsympathtic doctor sticks in the mind of the reader. While the use of primary sources in historical works is certainly not an original method, reading what intellectuals had to say about the gay experience of their era is invaluable to the reader's understanding...

Author: By Theodore K. Gideonse, | Title: Out and About | 4/14/1995 | See Source »

...Sally." It's the end of my junior year, and I just found out three more left. Now I'm all alone with Sally. Sally, Sally, Sally. She drives me absolutely bonkers. She talks louder than my deaf grandmother, smells like the MAC, and follows the "creative chaos" method of housekeeping. Not to mention that she listens to Mariah Carey. And you should meet her boyfriend. Yuck! Not only am I pissed that my "friends" have left me all alone with Sally for my senior year (what does that say about me?), but I can't decide whether I should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norma Knows | 4/13/1995 | See Source »

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