Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Walter Van Dyke Bingham, 71, the Army's chief psychologist (1940-47), who helped devise the battery of psychological tests and interviewing procedures used to screen World War II draftees, of a heart attack; in Washington...
...Mechanisms. When it comes to strict Freudian psychiatry, Psychologist VanderVeldt and Psychiatrist Odenwald have their reservations. Their target is not Freud's medical techniques, but "the phillosophy that has gradually been tacked on" them. "Freud's most fundamental mistake was to view a person as a machine, a set of mechanisms, and to consider the psychoanalyst as a technician or mechanic who is supposed to mend these mechanisms when they function badly...
...University of Chicago's Louis Leon Thurstone, 65, a top U.S. apostle of the mental test. A onetime assistant of Thomas Edison, Psychologist Thurstone explored far beyond the I.Q., devoted himself to devising tests for basic mental functions (e.g., verbal understanding, word fluency, number facility, space thinking, perception, reasoning, shape recognition). His plans after leaving Chicago: to go right on making tests as director of the new Psychometric Laboratory at the University of North Carolina...
...revolt came to an end, Dr. Vernon B. Fox, young (36) psychologist and deputy warden who had conducted final negotiations for the surrender, took to the prison radio with a message of praise for the rioters. Said Fox: "Congratulations to you men of 15 block. You have performed a service. This may presage a new era (in administration) of American prisons...
...riot leaders, for whom Psychologist Fox had the highest praise, were...