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...would lose himself in books. Before going on to Harvard Law School, he spent two years at Oxford. His ! enduring affection for things British is evident in everything from his tailoring to the trace of a British accent that sometimes inflects his speech to his wife Joanna, a clinical psychologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston; her father, Lord Blakenham, was once leader of Britain's Conservative Party...
Katherine Coleman was married to an Army major and psychologist. "It's a myth that domestic violence doesn't happen in officers' families," says Coleman, now divorced and living in San Antonio, Texas. Her husband went so far as to draft a prenuptial pact detailing sexual obligations and rules governing outside friendships. She recalls him cornering her in the kitchen or bathroom and not letting her leave until she gave in to his demands. "We argued once for four hours in the kitchen, and he wouldn't let me out," she says. "I had to urinate on the kitchen floor...
What does it take to be truly great lawyer? Or an outstanding psychologist? Or historian, or computer scientist, or sociologist? Is it an encyclopedic memory of all the details in one's field, which could be spit back at will? Knowledge of facts may help you get a job, but would it make you truly great? Most people would say no, as even the most mediocre scholar could look up the details of his trade in seconds. And as Albert Einstein has said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Ironically, in this psychology class much like my others, tests measure the ability of students to cram as many isolated facts as possible into their heads, only to forget them as soon as they are written down, psychologist is supposed to be fostered in this environment, I still don't understand...
...ones often invoked to explain the problem of violence in society as a whole -- more guns, and more glory for using them. But experts also blame increasingly harsh work environments and a continual wave of layoffs in the past decade, which have made workers feel dispensable. Says psychologist Bruce Blythe, of Atlanta-based Crisis Management International: "People get awfully upset when there are no raises, then there are layoffs, and the CEO gets a $500,000 bonus. This growing disparity plays into it." Making workers even more desperate, says Dennis Johnson, a clinical psychologist at Behavior Analysts and Consultants...