Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elicited happy looks from Sirhan's defenders. When talk somehow turned to jigsaw puzzles, Sirhan was heard to remark impatiently: "If I can't do it fast enough-if I can't match the whole picture-I give up." To Dr. Martin Schorr, a San Diego psychologist, much of Sirhan's taped prattle reinforced his own diagnosis of acute mental illness. Schorr subjected Sirhan to batteries of psychiatric tests, which showed, he contended, hypomania and paranoia. As for hypomania, "There is something driving this man." Schorr summed up paranoia as "I am O.K.; everybody else...
So?at the moment?it seems. Dr. Ralph Metzner, a psychologist with Stanford University's counseling and testing center, uses astrology in a quarter of his cases in the same way Jung did. He thinks that it will soon be "an adjunct to psychology and psychiatry," not because it is truer but because it is "much more complex and sophisticated than present psychological maps or systems." Graduate Student Michael Katz led a weekly astrology class last semester as part of Stanford's introductory psychology course, and New York University recently invited Astrologer Shirley Spencer to lecture...
...field of nonanalytic psychiatry has grown enormously in recent years-a fact that does not so much mean that psychoanalysis has lost ground as that its competitors have gained. Many younger psychiatrists, moreover, are displaying an increasing skepticism about the doctrines and techniques of orthodox analysis. Says British Psychologist H. J. Eysenck: "It has nothing to say to us, and there is nothing we can do for it except ensure a decent burial...
There is some evidence, in fact, that far from counteracting the debilitating effects of ghetto environments, present ghetto classrooms may add to them. A recent study by Robert Rosenthal, a Harvard psychologist, and Lenore Jacobsen, a San Francisco school principal, has indicated that teacher expectations for pupils may be a key variable in determining achievement. If this is true, a ghetto teacher's low expectations for her black students could be a self-fulfilling prophecy...
...also not clear that it would really make much difference if somehow genetic distinctions did exist between white and black minds. As one of Jenson's respondents--psychologist Lee J. Cronbach of Stanford--puts...