Word: psychologist
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...Harvard guy--his Ph.D. is in public policy--Doblin founded the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) in 1986 to help scientists get funding and approval to study the drugs. (Doblin, 53, says he was too shy for the '60s, but he was inspired by the work of psychologist Stanislav Grof, who authored a 1975 book about promising LSD research--research that ended with antidrug crackdowns.) Doblin has painstakingly worked with intensely skeptical federal authorities to win necessary permissions. MAPS helped launch all four of the current Ecstasy studies, a process that took two decades. It's the antithesis...
...does that emotional decoupling take place? More important, if we can figure out that part of the question, can we figure out how to prevent such things from happening? "We always ask ourselves, 'Is this a person who has no conscience at all?'" says Stanton Samenow, a forensic psychologist and author of the 2004 book Inside the Criminal Mind. "They seem to have an unfathomable ability to shut off knowledge of the consequences, of the difference between right and wrong. It's critical for us to try to understand that worldview and mental makeup...
...Then she began individual therapy with a psychologist specializing in trauma counseling. A number of specialists moved into Littleton following the shootings, but through her church Crystal was able to find one who was already a member of the community. For four or five years she saw her therapist as often as she could, usually weekly...
...career. “Any decision made in the Amaker household is a joint decision and I’m not the coach of that team,” Amaker said in a 2001 interview with the Michigan Daily. His wife, Stephanie Pinder-Amaker, is currently a clinical psychologist who was Associate Dean of Students at Michigan and is expected to be a part of the Harvard faculty should Amaker join the coaching staff, according to the Globe. —Staff writer Walter E. Howell contributed to the reporting of this story.—Staff writer Caleb...
...doctors have specialties, but it shouldn’t take the trained professionalism of a psychologist to treat patients with respect. Sure there are mental health services right upstairs, but is it too much to ask for something in between the gruff cop and the Buttsavitch? Something that is not quite the whispering receptionist for the psychiatrists on the fourth floor, and not quite the callous Urgent Care...