Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejoinder would not be universally applauded. But students observing the mock confrontation in Washington, D.C., considered the answer perfect. The scene was staged during a ten-week course called "Assertiveness Training," the most popular offering in George Washington University's division of continuing education for women. Taught by Psychologist Roland Tanck, the program is one of hundreds of "assertiveness" courses that have recently sprung up at universities and counseling centers...
Though some of the courses are geared toward both sexes, most concentrate on women. "Traditionally, women have been unassertive," explains Psychologist Arthur Lange, who teaches a course to overcome the problem at the Counseling Center of Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. "They have played the roles men and society have given them rather than seeking their own." Women's liberation, he points out, has thrust them into new roles without giving them the skills to play them...
Results of the courses can be traumatic, especially at home. As they gain new assertiveness, some women vent their pent-up anger on their husbands or boy friends. In a few cases, such emotions have triggered divorces. Psychologist Lange, for one, warns women of the hazards at the start of his course, and will even talk with husbands if trouble develops. "Sudden changes in behavior," he warns, "can be dangerous...
Next, a New York judge stated that a man may use any nonviolent means, "even deceit," to get a woman to say yes. Martin Evans, 36, had bedded a 20-year-old woman after telling her he was a psychologist doing research. But, concluded Justice Edward J. Greenfield, he used no violence or threats. Calling Evans "an abominable snowman," Greenfield added, "Bachelors and other men on the make, fear not. It is still not illegal to feed a girl a line." Agreed Evans: "I seduce. I don't rape...
...research so far has been narrow, concentrating largely on white, middleclass American males. But in "separate studies, three of the most important life-cycle scholars-Psychiatrist Roger Gould of U.C.L.A., Yale Psychologist Daniel Levinson and Harvard Psychiatrist George Vaillant-have reached some remarkably similar conclusions that add new dimensions to the topography of postadolescent life. The main features...