Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Masters and Johnson were pioneers," says Psychologist Peter A. Wish, executive director of the New England Institute of Family Relations in Framingham, Mass., "and when people pioneer, they can't have all the answers." Dr. Carol Nadelson, professor of psychiatry at Tufts-New England Medical Center, agrees that "their research methodology raises some questions," but she cautions that "one could get sticky about methodology and never get anything done...
DIED. Gregory Bateson, 76, English anthropologist, psychologist and free-ranging investigator of ideas; of a respiratory illness; in San Francisco. Bateson contributed to anthropology with studies of primitive cultures in collaboration with his first wife, the late Margaret Mead; to psychology with his formulation of the "double-bind" theory to explain schizophrenia; to cybernetics, of which he was one of the founders; and to the study of animal communications. Convinced that a unity underlies the diversity and change in living things, he asked in his latest book, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity, "What pattern connects the crab...
...doubts? For one thing, Detroit's black leaders point to the public school system, which is 85% black. By the time a Detroit student is in the eleventh grade, he has fallen two years behind the national norms in reading. Lamont Crenshaw, a black clinical psychologist, echoes a point made by urban educators across the country: "There are kids getting out of school who can't read, who can't write, who can't fill out an unemployment form. What are they going...
...York City. Surprisingly, the syndrome seems nearly as common in small towns and well-off suburbs as in big cities. The National Education Association has already held more than 100 local workshops round the country to help teachers cope with the problem, which University of California Social Psychologist Ayala Pines defines as "physical, emotional and attitudinal exhaustion." Last March, Stress Consultant Marian Leibowitz held a burnout seminar in Edwardsville, Ill. (pop. 11,982). It drew a paying audience of 250 to a hall big enough for only...
...health and nutrition, law, fashion, pet care, astrology, gardening and home repairs. Turner has also signed up a roster of big-name commentators, including Senator Barry Goldwater, ex-Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Political Columnists Richard Reeves, Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, Psychologist Joyce Brothers and ERA Opponent Phyllis Schlafly...