Word: professional
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Still, Kuralt remains committed to "news that no one else is reporting." His favorite story, he says unhesitatingly, was the 50th wedding anniversary reunion of a rural Mississippi family. "They had seven children, and when the first one was old enough to go to college, they hitched up the wagon...
Your article "Challenging the Hired Guns" [LAW, Feb. 27] tells why lawyers are perceived by many Americans as unethical, avaricious deceivers. When Chief Justice Warren Burger refers to his colleagues as "hired guns" and "procurers" while addressing the American Bar Association, he is actually describing a very small percentage of...
Lawyers are no different from others. A few are dishonest and unscrupulous, but most are decent individuals trying to do well. It is disquieting to have the Chief Justice publicly berate the entire profession. One wonders how he would respond to an attorney who appeared before his court similarly misinformed...
But Masson admits that his book and reputation in the analytic field have left him almost entirely isolated from the profession. "No analyst has called me, former friends or former enemies," he says, adding "It's not a great loss you know. To be accepted in the psychoanalytic community is...
More important still is Masson's concluding argument which suggests that the denial of childhood experiences in psychoanalysis has allowed and condoned an oppression of female patients by a male-dominated profession. To Masson, Freud's theories ignore the early sexual traumas many women suffer, and therefore have led to...