Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is, in the voices of Baby Boomers whose higher education was not rewarded with higher earnings, a certain bewilderment. "I certainly expected to live as well as my parents," says Audrey Burnam, 35, a research psychologist at UCLA who lives in a rented two-bedroom apartment while her father, who works at a copper smelter in Arizona and never graduated from high school, owns his own three-bedroom house. "I certainly expected to be able to afford a home. I am comforted," she sighs, "that this is happening to a whole generation...
...Homosexual activity is a blight on society," psychologist Paul Cameron told a largely hostile crowd of 300, according to the Massachusetts Daily Collegian...
...Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football scholarships sink because of his hopeless transcript. Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that he was dyslectic when he flunked out of Franklin. "No wonder I'm not making it," he thought at the time...
...Anorexia and bulimia are not diseases. If labeled as such people think they can take pills or something to get rid of it. I call it a 'coping strategy gone awry.' It's a combination of the psychological and the physical," says Honnet, who is also an assistant psychologist at University Health Services dealing with eating disorders...
...Nashville spinning is Psychologist Martin Katahn, 57, director of Vanderbilt University's weight-management program. His new plan, detailed in a book to be released in a few weeks, picks up on a method he used to drop 75 lbs. after a heart attack 23 years ago. The key feature: three weeks of dieting followed by a week or two of relatively guilt-free maintenance eating. With exercise, he says, the rotation diet can result in a daily loss of two-thirds of a pound. Exults Katahn: "It's safe and it's quick...