Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such anxieties infect the Pennsylvania communities around Three Mile Island. Four years after the accident that thoroughly clouded the future of nuclear power, the psychological impact lingers. For some residents it may never end, despite assurances that the radiation leaks were minor. Notes Robert Holt, a New York University psychologist who has pored over all the studies made of the emotional consequences of the mishap: "Significant portions of the population were emotionally shocked by the accident, believe that they have been or will be harmed by radiation, and feel threatened by Three Mile Island...
Some experts worry about the strain of staying in touch 24 hours a day. Marilyn Komechak, a Fort Worth psychologist who has clinically studied stress, believes that prolonged use of beepers produces anxiety and probably high blood pressure. "I have never seen anyone respond to a beep with a smile or a less than strident comment," she says...
Some attribute the academic success of Asians to a genetic superiority. In his controversial study last year, British Psychologist Richard Lynn claimed that the Japanese score eleven points higher on the Wechsler IQ test than the American average. Their superior performance on tests of block designs, mazes and picture arrangement, however, may be related to the early study of the complex ideograms that compose their alphabet...
...Cole bases his play on the true story of Dale Jackson, a Black Vietnam veteran and Congressional Medal of Honor winner, who entered an Army hospital suffering from a nervous breakdown. In the play. Jackson (Reggie Montgomery) is confronted by an understanding psychologist (Ralph Pochoda). Their contact peels layers of resistance away from his cool exterior. Montgomery's riveting performance exposes a man consumed by guilt--guilt over bother his unconscionable actions in Vietnam and the fact that be alone of all his soldier friends survived to be actually honored for those deeds...
Cole writes with a conviction marred by problems in execution. The script seems dramatically contrived, with the psychologist serving less as a character than as a forced interlocutor. When Jackson refuses to answer a question, his doctor provides facile exposition by reciting information from Jackson's life. Worse, the doctor's prescription--for Jackson to give back the medal so he will recover--makes the insidious implication that the hundreds of veterans who did return their medals did so to assuage psychological problems. Cole seems to ignore the political protest that the action represented. As the doctor, Pochoda brings concern...