Word: psychologist
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Until now they reported on homosexuality not as an intrinsic evil but as a simple data point while addressing a candidate's psychosexual maturity. A few seminaries nonetheless regard the information as crucial. When a psychologist reports a candidate's describing his prior dating life as "'I didn't go with a girl, I went with a guy for three years,' that's usually a game stopper," says Monsignor Steven Rohlfs, rector at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmetsburg, Md. But most in his position are more accepting. Plante reports that one West Coast diocese responded to rumors...
...priesthood he believes are homosexually oriented. He notes that while Catholic teaching calls homosexuality a disorder, the American Psychiatric Association dropped that descriptive decades ago. "Being gay in and of itself, I would hope, wouldn't prevent someone from becoming a priest," he says. All four church-contracted psychologists interviewed by TIME agreed vociferously with his contention that homosexuality doesn't make one more likely to sexually abuse children. For instance, Father Gerard McGlone, a Jesuit psychologist and a vice president of Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, believes some tightening of the admission process is appropriate: "I think...
...sounds reasonable enough--but although dissociative identity disorder has an entry in the DSM-IV, psychology's official manual, it's still highly controversial. "I believe he believes he had all those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient...
Saturday, October 1. “Abducted,” by Susan A. Clancy. Harvard-trained psychologist explains how people come to believe they were abducted by aliens. Harvard University Press...
...disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel, a Los Angeles psychologist who counsels seniors. And they recognize that if they are going to take a leap, now is the time...