Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...system of recording brain waves and letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society, these attract chiefly "the naive, the desperate and the superstitious...
...investigator in the field is Psychologist Neal Miller of Manhattan's Rockefeller University, who has had spectacular though temporary success in teaching a victim of serious hypertension to lower her blood pressure at will. (He points out, however, that similar efforts with other patients have failed.) At Topeka's Menninger Foundation, Psychologist Elmer Green is regularly successful in alleviating migraine headaches by teaching patients to increase the blood flow to their hands (as yet, he cannot explain why this works). Green has also tested Swami Rama, an Indian yogi who demonstrated his ability to stop his heart...
Richard M. Segal, associate psychologist to UHS, said yesterday that the study is still in its "embryonic" stage, but that if it is conducted, it will represent primarily applied research...
...uniqueness of his insights. His theory, as presented, is unique in its structure. But underneath that structure lies a sentiment, which Marx expressed best over 130 years ago. Unfulfilling labor, he wrote, "alienates from man his own body, external nature, his mental life and his human life." When a psychologist develops a theory of real needs, of the relationship between social needs and individual needs, and understands the relationship between changing feeling on a personal level and consciousness on a social level, a revolution may begin to move forward. Whether the revolution will be Primal is not yet clear...
...Women's Lib Has No Soul." So proclaims the cover of the latest issue of Encore, the black newsmagazine. Inside, an essay by Psychologist Rose Finkenstaedt condemns the feminist movement as "little more than the hysterical exhibitionism of spoiled children." To blacks, adds Editor-Publisher Ida Lewis, Women's Lib is merely "a playtoy for middle-class white women." At first reading, Encore's broadside sounds too extreme to reflect the outlook of more than a few blacks. But in interviews with TIME correspondents across the nation last week, many black women agreed with the magazine...