Word: psychologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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William James Hall. Sure, James was an eminent philosopher, psychologist and Harvard professor. But here's the important question: did he donate millions of dollars to Harvard? We don't think so. William James may not be the most beautiful building at Harvard, but we're sure we could find some insecure male donor who might be interested...
...indiscriminately, for example, or pederasts who prey on vulnerable children -- have a devious and potentially dangerous intent. Most Net users are more likely to project aspects of the person they wish they could be. Paulina Borsook, author of Love over the Wires, calls this ``selective lying by omission''; psychologist Kenneth Gergen, author of Saturated Self, more charitably regards it as ``playing out our other selves...
...such efforts are applauded by Judith Wallerstein, the California clinical psychologist who first raised public consciousness about the lasting damage of divorce. After studying 131 children of divorce over a span of 15 years, she found them to be at higher risk for depression, poor grades, substance abuse and intimacy problems. "We started to report this," she says, "and people got angry. They said, 'Impossible! If it's good for the parents, it's good for the children.' They wanted to believe that divorce and women's lib would take care of everything...
Often, students who are depressed for a specific reason need immediate help which may not be provided by the daily urgent-care periods. Harvard's short-term care system could benefit from having a psychologist available at UHS on demand, for students who want an individual meeting with an experienced practitioner...
...also does not provide more frequent or more extensive therapy, choosing instead to refer undergraduates to private practitioners or one of Harvard's nearby teaching hospitals. One sophomore who suffers from clinical depression said she went to a private psychologist because she felt that there was a lack of psychologists in UHS who would see someone on a regular basis...