Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Clinical Psychologist Charles Stenger, planning coordinator of the Veterans Administration P.O.W. program, the fact of imprisonment has a psychological impact that is "tremendous-an extreme and prolonged stress." This starts at the moment of capture. "That shock is about the most overwhelming, stupendous experience that can happen," says William N. Miller, a psychologist at the Navy's Center for P.O.W. Studies in San Diego. "No one who has not been totally at the mercy of other human beings can understand it. It brings a feeling of total helplessness and then a fantastic apathy...
...Your story on "Biological Imperatives" [Jan. 8] presenting Medical Psychologist John Money's belief that hormones secreted before and after birth have less effect on brain and behavior in human beings than the "sex assignment" that takes place at birth fails to answer two questions. First. how did the present pattern evolve from caveman to present-day man without some "natural tendencies" influencing male-ver-sus-female roles? Second, why do animals tend toward the same male-versus-fcmale behavior...
...want to stimulate ministries of the laity and of women in the church. We want to demonstrate that not only priests can be ministers, but also all the people of God." At a national workshop on the diaconate in Houston in December, Father Eugene Kennedy, a noted Chicago psychologist, predicted that the married deacons of today would be the prototypes for the priests of tomorrow...
...experience of Psychiatrist Carol Nadelson of the Pregnancy Counseling Service in Boston, giving up a child for adoption "is a much more major trauma than abortion." Psychologist David points out that while psychosis after childbirth develops in 4,000 U.S. mothers each year, there are few cases of post-abortion psychosis. Nor is there much evidence even of less serious emotional trouble...
...adds: "I have never been therapeutically successful with a woman patient unless she became capable of developing her talents and interests outside her marriage and family. I don't think she is a really mature person until she can do this." Jane Thayer, a Washington, D.C., clinical psychologist, believes that male therapists promote the maturing process by actively encouraging "a get up and stand on your own two feet" attitude in female patients and refusing "to let women play a sweet, submissive role." Generally, most professionals agree, the better the psychiatrist, the fewer his prejudices-including bias against women...