Word: psychologist
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...Turn it, turn it, everything is in it." Two are new translations: Alter's (Norton) and a more selective and idiosyncratic effort by Buddhist Stephen Mitchell (HarperCollins). Visotzky, in his The Genesis of Ethics (Crown), not only honors the moral insights he gained through his conversations but displays a psychologist's (or novelist's) ability to see the patriarchal dramas through the eyes of each participant, seldom condemning and usually illuminating. Panelist Naomi Rosenblatt is a psychotherapist, and her Wrestling with Angels (Delta, with co-author Joshua Horwitz) features the subheadings "When Children Become Hostage to Their Parents' Marriage" (Jacob...
...interesting background note about this novel is its own story. Ladd, as a trained psychologist, first set out to compile a collection of case studies so as to tell the stories of black women that she had me both in the United States and abroad. But, while in the midst of one interview in Senegal, the woman said that she did not wish to be interviewed. "She told me that what I imagined about her life was more interesting than her life--that it was not her story, but my story. So she pushed me toward fiction, and she freed...
Goleman, a psychologist and science writer for the New York Times, is best known for his ground-breaking synthesis of psychological and neurological research, Emotional Intelligence...
William P. Moynihan '00 reports that a student named "[Edidiong N.] Ikpe '00 said it is possible [Janice] George was mentally unstable." ("Students Befriend a Fraud," news story, Sept. 24). What does mental instability have to do with deception? It is more likely that a psychologist would deceive someone. Attributing mental illness is an effective way to discredit someone as Ikpe has done...
According to Kagan, the report refutes psychologist Arnold Shoenberg's study that dissonant music is a matter of taste...