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...wonderful colleague and a creative psychologist who made seminal contributions in the field of language development," said Starch Professor of Psychology Jerome Kagan...
Drexler's defense is likely to turn on questions of whether the baby was alive at birth and the mother's state of mind. Defense expert Margaret Spinelli, Ph.D., a New York City psychologist who has studied women who hide their pregnancies and sometimes kill their infants, refuses to discuss specifics of Drexler's case but answers the "How could she?" question in general terms. Most such women, she says, "describe things like watching themselves deliver from across the room." Dissociation can become so intense that some women deny their pregnancies even to themselves. "When they deliver, the pregnancy...
...decades, to be cool was to be "cool." And then, suddenly, it was not. As with all extreme cultural tendencies, something had to snap, and what began to show up in the mid-1990s was an insistent desire to feel passion again and show us you care. In 1995 psychologist Daniel Goleman published Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ. The best seller was embraced in educational circles because EQ (emotional quotient) offered a way to counter IQ as a standard of intelligence. But it was also a signal that the public at large might be ready, indeed...
DEAR DR. PET PSYCHOLOGIST...
...sense of catharsis simply to be talking about the racial difficulties they face. On the other hand, white teens interviewed seemed to have more trouble discussing racial issues, and were often unable to even find the words to describe their feelings about ethnicity. Part of the problem, according to psychologist Tatum, is that some parents, particularly white ones, silence their children when racial issues are raised. This is done, sometimes, as part of a well-meaning effort to teach children that such distinctions don't matter. But as a result of such silencing, children are left without answers to their...