Word: psychologist
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...violent as the Guyana group was in its last days, but many of them share a number of unusual characteristics. Social scientists who have studied these groups agree that most cult members are in some sort of emotional trouble before they join. Says Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, a psychologist at Berkeley: "About one-third are very psychologically distressed people. The other two-thirds are relatively average people, but in a period of depression, gloom, being at loose ends." Such people are vulnerable to well-planned recruitment techniques. These usually involve displays of effusive affection and understanding, or "love bombing...
...gravest threat imaginable to such a group is for someone to try to take members out of the 'family,' " says U.C.L.A. Psychologist David Wellisch. Leo Ryan's mission to Guyana may have been just such a threat, the spark that triggered the tragedy...
Mead wrote her other books in the same easily understood idiom. Coming of Age was quickly followed by Growing Up in New Guinea, which she wrote in collaboration with her second husband, New Zealand Psychologist Reo Fortune. But anthropology alone could not satisfy her. A fluent speaker who rarely needed notes, she also carried a heavy teaching schedule, lecturing before enthusiastic classes at both Columbia and Fordham universities. She established a hall of the Peoples of the Pacific at the American Museum of Natural History, where she was curator of ethnology. She brought a keen, insatiably curious mind and anthropological...
...back up these testimonials, Psychologist Alan Abrams, a ten-year practitioner of TM, tested the emotions and psyches of 120 Folsom inmates, half of whom were meditators. Using a battery of psychological and personality tests, he found that neuroticism among the meditators decreased 50% on the average, hostility 22%, anxiety 60% and suspicion 27%. No significant changes were recorded for the nonmeditators. Perhaps the most convincing statistic of all is that out of 58 meditators who have been released from Folsom over the past two years, only two have returned. Folsom's average recidivism fate is 15% for prisoners...
Dundes' theory has received scattered support. Says San Francisco Psychologist Jane Jacobs: "I think Dundes' ideas are very profound. My hunch is that it's right on." Former Running Back Dave Kopay, author of The David Kopay Story and now a gay militant, agrees that if homosexuality is not overt on the football field, "it sure as hell is covert...