Word: psychologistic
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...dangerous man who will explode. But in Illinois, as in all other states, only dangerous people who are also deemed mentally ill can be involuntarily committed. That's why Illinois has hired its own big-ticket experts to evaluate Yoder and, presumably, testify against him. One, the forensic psychologist Reid Meloy, worked with prosecutors on the Timothy McVeigh trial. Meloy & Co. will lend outside heft to the government's position that Yoder suffers from delusional and paranoid disorders so severe that he doesn't recognize them. As state psychologist Daniel Cuneo said in a 1999 trial, "Mr. Yoder continues...
...sure, a taste for fire is not always a sign of pathology. According to clinical psychologist Marcel Chappuis, a consultant with the Salt Lake City Fire Department, most boys (possibly 90%) and a handful of girls (maybe 15%) naturally develop a fascination with flame between ages four and seven. Most of these "curiosity fire setters" soon find other interests. But by nine or 10, as many as 20% of these kids may still be lighting fires, thrilled by the power of the blaze and the excitement of trying to control it. The trouble comes when the behavior persists even longer...
Therapy even intruded on their courtship. "Soon after Annie and I became engaged, a psychologist we met at a party told us we were the worst imaginable marital risk," Kaplan recalls. The therapeutic view proved wrong again: Bernays and Kaplan have been married 47 years, and they have three children and six grandchildren. Every day the two go off to their individual offices in their Dutch colonial home to work on their next books. It's just life on Professors...
Laurence Steinberg, a Temple University psychologist who studies adolescents, hears a familiar tune. "Adults have always been upset by the provocative nature of teenage dancing," he says. "When the twist was introduced, high school principals were saying they wanted to ban that...
...addition to bringing in foreigners to raise the intensity level, Japan has tried other team-building tactics, including employing a psychologist, Kazushige Toyoda, for the youth team. Toyoda specializes in the practice of qi, which supposedly unleashes the body's inner powers. Among those he trained was the national team's striker, the bleach blond, baby-faced Junichi Inamoto?the talk of Japan last week after he scored the winning goal in Japan's 1-0 victory over Russia and contributed another in a 2-2 draw with Belgium. In early qi sessions, Inamoto "was a little shy, a little...