Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harvard's Psychologist Gordon Allport, in a quiet, unpublished study of Cambridge "morale," had found the town, which is 77% Irish Catholic, rife with Coughlinism, antiSemitism, Anglophobia...
...that discharged and rejected NPs need psychiatric care, without it might develop real mental illness. He also realized that there was no place where they could get such help. So last August he started a psychiatric clinic at the hospital, manned one night a week by twelve psychiatrists, a psychologist, seven social workers. The clinic gives psychiatric interviews, group treatment, occupational therapy, arranges social gatherings, dates, helps men get jobs...
Measuring these skills has been largely the work of two scientists-Ophthalmologist Hedwig Stieglitz Kuhn* of Hammond, Ind., and Dr. Joseph Tiffin, Purdue psychologist. For 20 years Dr. Kuhn has studied all sorts of eyes used and misused in the vast Calumet industrial region south of Chicago. Five years ago Dr. Tiffin began to correlate visual skills and job analysis. This week, as a result of their work, the optical firm of Bausch & Lomb announced that it was offering a new visual service to industry, using a new instrument, the Ortho-Rater...
...support of his theory, Salter cites experiments by Psychologist C. V. Hudgins, who conditioned human subjects to contract the pupils of their eyes, first in response to a flashing light, then to a bell, then to the word "contract," then to the mere thought of the word "contract...
Salter's alcoholic patients condition themselves to hate liquor by repeated doses of self-hypnosis. In treating neurotics, the psychologist helps patients relieve themselves by making a clean breast, under hypnosis, of their unconscious fears and troubles. In What Is Hypnosis Salter offers a breath-taking project: teaching autohypnosis to soldiers. Says he: "Simple mass procedures applied to soldiers could quickly filter out one of five or at worst one of eight who can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anesthetized...