Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radioman M. was different. He had committed aggravated assault, under the influence of so much alcohol that he could not remember his offense, and therefore could not feel guilty about it. Explained Psychologist Grant's assistant, Virginia Ives: "The alcoholism was only a symptom. M. had an idealistic, religious mother and an alcoholic, atheistic father. In a typical I-4 conflict, M. saw himself wavering between wanting to be like his mother and like his father. In a group therapy session he saw others struggling with similar problems of ideals and behavior. He gained considerable insight into...
...Parisian, however, the bums of Paris are no proper bums at all, but merely aggravated psychological cases eager for reclamation. After a painstaking study for a doctorate at the Sorbonne, Psychologist Alexandre Vexliard reported in a thesis that some 50% of the Paris clochards are not drinking men. that many of them do useful and vital work at the city's markets and that most of them are "redeemable" to society. The bums of Paris reacted with outraged pride to these black charges...
Unimpressed, Psychologist Vexliard stuck to his guns. "Less than one in ten of these unfortunates," he insisted, "wants...
...from outside. Otherwise, the twelve were encouraged to devise their own programs. They studied in the institute's well-stocked library, worked in its shops and greenhouse, tramped through its acres of woods, set up a whole series of heated round-table discussions. Under the deft guidance of Psychologist Ruth Andrus, they not only rediscovered the art of conversation, they also found a host of talents they had never suspected before...
...when I was in the advertising business." This meant hiring "the country's foremost Bach organist" and a full-time drama coach (six plays a year), instituting a physical education program, a weekday nursery, a children's church, a Sunday school for handicapped children, a staff psychologist and a full-time "cateress." On the side, Pastor Palmquist served on 23 different Los Angeles committees during his eight years there. "I shook hands with 800 people last Sunday at a reception," he said last week. "And one after another, I met people who had been in trouble, had some...