Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...study undertaken by a Harvard psychologist indicates that many people may intermittently take heroin without becoming addicted...
...absurd" as if they were significant and holds out the "false promise of psychological nirvana." Considerable support for Maliver's view (framed in more temperate language) is to be found in Encounter Groups: First Facts (Basic Books; $15), written for professional readers by University of Chicago Psychologist Morton Lieberman, Stanford University Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom and State University of New York Psychologist Matthew Miles. After systematically evaluating more than a dozen varieties of encounter groups, the three scientists found that a third of the participants gained nothing, while another third reaped "negative outcomes" and in some cases sustained "significant psychological...
...psychologist I have confronted the fact that even with all the support and warmth I offered my patients, when they came face to face with moments of crisis in which they questioned the meaning of their existence and their significance in this world, they were all too often left with despair, loneliness and fear. However, it was when I developed a system of spiritual therapeutic techniques that I began to see real progress in my patients, for it is only when man can see himself as one and at peace with the universe that he can overcome his feelings...
...Headed by Lieut. Julia Tucker, the squad is staffed with seven other women, and is responsible for providing emotional support for rape victims. It is also charged with educating the male policemen who still do much of the work in rape cases. To this end, Lieut. Tucker has organized psychologist-led seminars for both male and female officers. These days, she says, New York police who interview rape victims are now selected with an eye to their emotional sensitivity. But, acknowledges the detective bureau's Deputy Inspector Terrence McKeon, "You have to be a woman to understand the shock...
...stories in this collection are all about women, written in the first person. Yet Alberto Moravia is no intellectual transvestite, going for novelty kicks in drag. For more than 45 years, in works like Two Women and Conjugal Love, he has practiced as the slightly old-fashioned literary psychologist to whom the soul of woman represents the final mystery...