Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rubinsteins drifted around Europe, from Stockholm to Paris to Vienna. On his 15th birthday Serge decided he had an inferiority complex, asked his parents for an appointment with Dr. Alfred Adler, the famed Viennese psychologist, for a birthday present. Since Adler was a responsible physician, the story that Rubinstein later told seemed one other piece of his self-dramatization. Serge said that Adler offered to cure his neurosis, but added: "Do you want that? You'll just be an ordinary person. The way you are now, you'll be driven by ambition and desires." Serge said he decided...
Except for Psychologist J. B. Rhine (extrasensory perception), few of Duke's professors have achieved popular fame. Yet, on almost any academic or Government committee, there is apt to be at least one faculty representative from Duke. Economist Calvin Hoover was one of Averell Harriman's top advisers on the Marshall Plan. Eber Malcolm Carroll, an authority on German history, served in the OSS during the war, directed the editing of captured German papers. Physicists Walter Nielsen and Lothar Nordheim played major roles at Oak Ridge. Neurosurgeon Barnes Woodhall is a ranking consultant to the Veterans Administration. Congregations...
Last week, coached by Psychologist Harold Crasilneck, the Southwestern team was using hypnosis on yet another patient: a 29-year-old victim of Buerger's disease, a circulatory ailment heavily aggravated by smoking. After hypnosis, the patient refused to touch cigarettes, retched when one was offered. Result: steady improvement. The team hopes to extend the technique to other chronic ailments, but, warns Crasilneck: "As we see it now, hypnosis has a very definite, specific role in medicine. We don't for a moment say it is a cure...
...Psychiatrist James McCranie, Psychologist Harold B. Crasilneck, Surgeons Morris J. Fogelman, Ben Wilson and Jerry Stirman...
Humanist Barrenness. As the debate wound up, the British press continued to argue about the BBC's propriety in airing Psychologist Knight's anti-religious opinions. "The attacks on Mrs. Knight do Christians little credit," editorialized the conservative weekly Spectator. "It is not Christians, but her fellow scientific humanists, assuming that there are any, who have reason to be distressed by her broadcasts. They can hardly relish having the utter barrenness of their beliefs formulated and widely publicized . . . The BBC deserves congratulations for these broadcasts. The churches must press for as many more of them as possible...