Word: psychologist
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...then assumed a post as a psychologist at State Hospital in Northampton, Mass. before enrolling in a joint M.D./Ph.D. program at the University of Connecticut and Yale Medical School, where he also became a fellow at the Yale Department of Psychiatry’s Child Studies Center...
Hilary Hanafin, a clinical psychologist with the Center for Surrogate Parenting and Egg Donation, commented on the process on the American Radio Network’s “Decision to Donate” series. She notes: “Being an egg donor is a big decision. It’s not like being a blood donor, and a 21- or 19-year-old undergraduate probably doesn’t have the capacity to understand what she’s getting into...
Britain's Financial Times once described Steven Pinker as "a handsome man" with a hairstyle that "works equally well for Led Zeppelin front man Robert Plant." But even if the Harvard psychologist didn't look like a rock star, he would still play to packed houses on the lecture circuit. He has something rare among top-tier scholars, an ability to convey complex ideas with clarity, flair and wit. That's one reason his books--most recently, The Blank Slate--make best-seller lists even as they make waves in academia. The other reason is those waves in academia. Pinker...
Every half-century, it seems, an eminent Harvard psychologist crystallizes an intellectual era. Near the end of the 19th century, William James, writing in Darwin's wake, stressed how naturally functional the mind is. In the mid--20th century, after a pendulum swing, B.F. Skinner depicted the mind as a blank slate. Now the pendulum is swinging again. Harvard, which lured Pinker from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last year, seems poised to keep its tradition alive. --BY ROBERT WRIGHT, author of Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny
...Prince is now a man of 70. His early professional years were devoted to philosophy and to the practice of medicine. He made important research in obscure nervous diseases before he became known as a psychologist, and is perhaps most famous for his researches in problems of multiple personality. His theories of the subconscious were well known among psychologists long before Freud's had become a familiar name in this country. Dr. Prince has been guest professor in many American universities. In Oxford and Cambridge, Edinburgh and London he has lectured on phases of abnormal psychology...