Word: psychologist
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According to Nesson's Web page, the five scholars Berkowitz's on ad hoc committee were Jerome Bruner, a noted psychologist and professor at New York University; Leon Kass, a professor of social thought at the University of Chicago; Ellen Kennedy, a professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Kramnick, a political theory professor at Cornell University; and Maria M. Tatar, professor of German at Harvard. Bruner co-founded Harvard's Center for Cognitive Studies in 1960 while a professor here...
...Quincy streets and its founder have influenced the Harvard community. Henry James, Sr. 'was an avid reader of the works of Emanuel Swedenborg, the Swedish theologian who was the inspiration for the Church of the New Jerusalem. Henry in turn influenced his eldest son William, the philosopher and psychologist for whom our William James Hall is named. Just up Quincy Street a few blocks from the Chapel is Harvard's Faculty Club, formerly the home of the James family...
...scientific team assembled by writers Stephen Hauser and Paul Attanasio, adapting an old Michael Crichton novel, is ragtag and cranky. The chief credential of its psychologist (Dustin Hoffman) is a report on how to handle alien encounters, which he admits cribbing largely from sci-fi tales. The biochemist (Sharon Stone) is a pill popper. The mathematician (Samuel L. Jackson) is a cynic, the astrophysicist (Liev Schreiber) is twittily lusting after a Nobel Prize, and the team leader (Peter Coyote) needs to try a little tenderness. In short, the possibilities for amusing dysfunction are potentially larger than we usually find...
Hayao Kawai, a prominent Jungian psychologist and a member of Hashimoto's reform advisory council, traces Japan's collective dishonesty to a cultural trait. Kawai likes to joke that he is president of Japan's "Liars' Club." "There is no club at all, really," he confesses, winking. "In Japan, as long as you are convinced you are lying for the good of the group, it's not a lie." So it is that Japan is a place where doctors often withhold information from their patients, instead telling family members about a serious illness. Corporations customarily withhold potentially damaging information from...
...birthday," says Michael Carlisle, her friend and agent. "That's when she woke up and started a new life. She's recognized she has a problem, and is in the process of resolving it." She is not in rehab now, he said, but she's seeing a psychologist. A small group of coaches, skaters and friends has adopted her, Carlisle says, and is overseeing the education of Oksana. "She has demons. But she's a wonderful person, and she's trying to work through...