Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mixed Results. With that kind of buildup, a letdown was almost inevitable. "Impossible expectations have been raised," Physiological Psychologist Neal Miller of Rockefeller University, a leader in feedback research, told a New York symposium last week. Indeed, actual gains have been modest. Researchers have helped some incontinent patients to gain control of their urination and defecation through biofeedback. Among other researchers, Dr. John Basmajian, a professor of anatomy and rehabilitation medicine at Emory University, reports success in eliminating foot drop - difficulty in raising the foot while walking - though efforts to extend the technique to cerebral palsy victims have failed...
...that threaten to destroy the family. Psychiatrist Philip Guerin, director of the Center for Family Learning in New Rochelle, N.Y., finds that many fathers suffer heart attacks shortly after a grown son or daughter leaves home. His hypothesis: the child may have functioned as a buffer for parental conflict. Psychologist Dina Fleischer of Richmond's Medical College of Virginia reports on the family of a man who had a heart transplant in 1968: when the patient was near death, the family functioned well; when he recovered, the family unraveled; whenever he relapsed, the family functioned well again...
...hideout began. While a spotter plane kept the house under constant surveillance, armored cars were stationed outside the front door, and more than 200 soldiers and police surrounded the floodlit house. Loudspeaker appeals for the kidnapers' surrender were met with a broadside of obscene oaths from Gallagher. A psychologist was rushed to the scene to listen to conversations in the besieged bedroom that were monitored by sophisticated electronic equipment borrowed from Scotland Yard. Herrema was heard to call hoarsely for food and water. When police offered to send up milk and ham sandwiches, the woman believed to be Marian...
...First? Patty's mental state remains the key issue before the courts. Last week Federal Judge Oliver Carter postponed until at least Oct. 22 the hearing to determine whether she should go free on $500,000 bail pending trial. The delay will give three psychiatrists and one psychologist appointed by the court more time to evaluate her stability. If Patty is found to be mentally incompetent, she could be confined to an institution indefinitely...
...extreme example of this bias, a one-armed Chicago woman who had been raped at gunpoint was asked accusingly by the defense attorney: "Did you even try to grab the gun?" Yet researchers increasingly agree with the feminist advice to fight back unless the attacker is armed. Says Clinical Psychologist James Selkin, director of the Denver General Hospital's Violence Research Unit: "A potential rapist looks for a woman who is vulnerable to attack." In Selkin's view, an unarmed rapist who approaches a woman on a dark street, seizes her and says, "Don't scream...