Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...perform is to stick by its founder's credo. The main purpose of the university's schools-Arts and Sciences, Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Engineering and Agriculture-is to teach Western techniques to be used within the framework of Arab culture. "The students," says one psychologist, "can't help but respect the United States more, because we give them the freedom to disagree...
...That, Pop? In Chicago, Psychologist Stanley Mitchell, telling parents that they could eliminate juvenile delinquency by whispering good thoughts into their youngsters' ears as they slept, said: "The kids wouldn't hear, but their subconscious minds would, and this would build a solid relationship between parents and child...
Among variegated practitioners of talk-it-out treatment for emotional problems, Chicago's Psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers, 55, has long been a maverick. He calls his method "client-centered therapy," tries manfully to define it: "We see therapy as an experience, not in intellectual terms. We treat the client as a person, not as an object to be manipulated and directed." Snorts a Chicago psychoanalyst of neo-Freudian persuasion: "Rogers' method is unsystematic, undisciplined and humanistic. Rogers doesn't analyze and doesn't diagnose. We have no common ground." To Rogers that is fine...
...strawberry-eating jag by the mother-to-be. But it is no old wives' tale that German measles in the first three months of pregnancy can be crippling or fatal to the fetus (TIME, Dec. 31). Now more such evidence is piling up. In London's Lancet, Psychologist Denis H. Stott of Bristol University reports a study of 102 mentally retarded children, makes a strong case that prenatal influences (as opposed to injury during birth or later illness) are to blame...
...lays out a pat theory to explain as essentially the same not only political brainwashing and extorted confessions but religious conversions as well. The all-purpose key, according to Sargant, is to be found in the theories of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), the Russian physiologist and would-be psychologist who proved that his famed "conditioned-reflex" dogs knew for whom the bell tolled...