Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight constantly on the alert. Its telephone (CApitol 5-2388) jangles on an average of 2,500 times a year, often with calls from people reporting that a relative or friend-usually meaning the caller himself-is contemplating suicide. At least nine times out of ten an answering psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or skilled secretary is able to talk the caller out of immediate action and arrange an appointment. Only rarely are the police alerted to trace a phone call and race to the caller's home while he is kept talking. Marilyn Monroe was addicted to making periodic...
...cure juvenile delinquency is to ask bad apples why they have worms. So argues Psychologist Charles W. Slack, who came upon the method accidentally in a Harvard project started four years ago called Streetcorner Research. Originally, he set up shop in a Cambridge storefront and paid young punks to talk their troubles into a tape recorder to find out what made them tick. In the process, he discovered to his surprise that they talk their troubles out: the crime rate among Slack's subjects has fallen by half...
Having made the discovery, Slack set out to profit from it. He assembled a five-man team, including a Jesuit priest-psychologist, and recruited 30 young toughs with police records ranging from burglary to rape−"tomorrow's nothings," as one boy put it. Slack lured them with cash: 50? to $2 an hour for being "research consultants" in a study of "how guys foul up." "Sick, Man, Sick." The chance to unburden themselves on tape−and then listen to the playback−worked as well as analysis. Usually, says Slack, the boys passed through five stages: apathy...
...name from its first location: a store front at the corner of Bow Street and Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. On the staff, in addition to Slack and Schwitzgebel, were Stanley Dubinsky, a social work student; David Kantor, a Harvard sociologist; and Father Jaun Cortes, a Jesuit priest and Clinical psychologist...
...becomes close to his interviewer may want to have the same kind of job, an unrealistic goal if the interviewer is a psychologist," Dr. Slack has said. "But with a staff composed of people such as accountants, carpenters, but drivers, and housewives, the very people the boy has to live with are those who are helping him back into society...