Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Outsider. A psychologist's report, written when Chessman was 18, noted that his "boastfulness is a compensation for underlying feelings of insecurity and inadequacy." Chessman was brought up in the Glendale section of Los Angeles. His father was a bitter, disappointed ineffectual who drifted from one job to another (carpenter, poultry butcher, Venetian-blind installer, yardman), and the precarious family income was battered by heavy medical expenses. Chessman's mother was injured in an auto accident when he was nine, for the rest of her life was a chaired invalid, paralyzed from the waist down...
...adopting her, they found the quick, eager girl hard to resist. At two, she recited nursery rhymes. At 2½ she was put to an IQ test, won a mark of 138-in the "very superior," top 2% of the nation. "An endearing and charming youngster," reported the examining psychologist. He prescribed immediate adoption by a family with "a wealthy educational environment...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). In the second installment of Japan's Changing Face, the program explains why the nation has become-in the words of a Japanese psychologist-"one huge broken family...
...from being gloomy, it is a hopeful work designed to promote mental health through a better understanding and acceptance of death's inevitability. As the Menninger Foundation's Psychologist Gardner Murphy points out: "The effort to escape the facing of death may constitute a deep source of ill health...
Outside Skeleton. It is from the child, temporally most remote from death, that the experts got some of their most basic data. Psychologist Maria H. Nagy (now at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) studied 378 children in Budapest in the late 19303, believes that, with minor differences, her findings can be applied to Western civilization generally...