Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...catch him quickly, he will do this again, maybe with another product." Maybe some place other than the Chicago area too. In addition, authorities feared there might be "copycat" poisonings by deranged people looking for a perverted sort of glory. Said Arthur Schueneman, senior clinical psychologist at Northwestern University's Rehabilitation Institute: "We can expect to see a number of recurrences of this type of thing, just as we saw airliner hijackings come in clusters...
...Murder most foul," wrote Shakespeare of the poisoning of Hamlet's father, the King of Denmark, "most foul, strange, and unnatural." Even William Shakespeare might have trouble imagining a crime fouler, stranger and more unnatural than the Tylenol poisonings in Illinois. "This killer is so unusual," says Clinical Psychologist Samuel Roll of the University of New Mexico, "that our guidelines just don't work...
What effect does habitual viewing have on children? Wilkins cites major studies that have reported a relationship between increased watching and decreased learning, between violence on television and aggressive behavior. Wilkins approvingly quotes Cornell Psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner, who once said: "The danger of TV lies not so much in the behavior it produces as in the behavior it prevents." Some examples: communication between parent and child, the capacity to entertain oneself, the ability to express ideas logically and feelings sensitively. Television, suggests Wilkins, does not sever children from reality, it becomes their reality, more vivid than the outside world...
...words, her million-dollar suit says, in effect: "I lost a baby because you deceived me, you lied to me." At 38, Perry may well be too old to bear her first child, according to her attorney, who says having her own child has always been one of the psychologist's major desires. If Perry's facts are right, it's dead wrong that Atkinson--who is 53 and married for 30 years--could get away with duping Perry into aborting her fetus, all the while knowing he'd never keep his pledge to impregnate her again...
...evidence in the book is less suited to convince most professionals than it is to produce a new hunt for high-tech sexual pleasure, and possible frustration. "A lot of women are going to be upset if they can't find it," says Midge Wilson, a social psychologist and a firm believer in the G spot. Adds Marriage Counselor Marion Holtzer of Chicago: "It's going to be like the Grail." Concludes Therese Baker, chairman of DePaul University's sociology department: "It's less interesting whether the Grafenberg spot is there than that people want...