Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Psychologists are the world's most inde fatigable fiddlers with figures, and from "Man's Prime" [TIME, Sept. 10] I note that Psychologist Harvey C. Lehman has averaged it all up to conclude that "top performances" come "at a precise figure for the prime of life: 33." An interesting commentary on the psychologist's mania for meaningless statistics would be a brief listing of some outstanding "top performances" in the arts, i.e., actual masterpieces...
...Psychologist Patient. A psychologist has been studying this group of quacks and thobbers for the past twelve years. Small, quick Mrs. Lee R. Steiner, who has degrees from the University of Minnesota and Smith College, and training in psychotherapy from Pioneer Alfred Adler (TIME, Sept. 10), read classified ads, went calling on palmists and swamis who hung out shingles. Sometimes she took a friend along as "patient," sometimes she described a neurotic husband (actually she is a widow) or a hypothetical maladjusted, discharged veteran called Junior. What she found out is described in her book Where Do People Take Their...
...Gluecks favor keeping present criminal legal methods, but only to determine acquittal or conviction. Sentence should then be passed, they say, not by a judge alone, but by a tribunal that includes a psychiatrist or a psychologist and a sociologist or educator along with the judge. The treatment prescribed by this tribunal should be modifiable by periodic checkups of the offenders' psychological and social improvement...
Diagnosis. Gathered together by Richard M. Brickner, author of Is Germany Incurable?, the 30 eminent consultants include Freudian Psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, Anthropologist Margaret Mead, Psychiatrist Adolf Meyer, Psychologist Gardner Murphy, Physician Alvan L. Barach. After long pondering, they concluded that the German people have been suffering (for more than a century) from a bad case of "psychocultural aggressiveness...
...main blind spots in the peace plans," stated the psychologist, "is an immaculate disregard for human nature." There is no mention of children or education, no mention of public opinion or democracy or the Four Freedoms or the common man. Until the politicians at San Francisco realize the importance of human nature, peace plans are doomed to failure...