Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...current A.M.A. Journal, University of California Psychiatrist Frederick G. Worden and Psychologist James T. Marsh supply some of the facts about men who confuse their sex identity. They studied a group of American men of normal male appearance (testes, beard, etc.) who sought to lose their masculinity by surgery. Finding: each of the men really thought that he was a woman who had been given a man's body by mistake...
...executive of a medium-sized company." The executive, said Rea, was deeply worried about the state of his company's business, as well as the efficiency of his own office and the top men around him. On a friend's recommendation, he took his problem to a psychologist...
...company president underwent a series of IQ and aptitude tests and personality studies. Then his ten chief aides were called in one by one for confidential interviews about their relations with the boss. When it was all over, the psychologist summoned the president. "You're asking for it," he said. "It has to start with you." With frankness he ticked off the president's business faults, portraying him as a penny-pinching worrier about small details, an employer who refused to delegate authority to his staff, an indecisive person who would not let underlings make decisions...
...president's first impulse was to resign, but the psychologist talked him out of that and persuaded him to begin correcting his executive faults. He scrapped his rule of passing personally on every cost item over $1,000, and let his assistants handle anything up to $20,000. Each executive's job and responsibilities were carefully defined, and each man was given a free hand to run his own department. As a result, they took more interest in their work. The president's desk was magically cleared of all the picayune problems that once piled...
...Close to Home. At first, the hospital's top doctors were shaken by the project, judged it dangerous, and could see no benefit to the mentally ill in doing a play whose chief character is mentally ill. But after watching rehearsals, the doctors were converted. Says Clinical Psychologist John Whitmyre: "Something remote would not have aroused such intense interest. This cast really knows mental illness. The patients are intense about this play because it raises the questions: 'What are the criteria for mental illness? What is the dividing line...