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...psychologist they sent him to "was a really cool guy," Gates recalls. "He gave me books to read after each session, Freud stuff, and I really got into psychology theory." After a year of sessions and a battery of tests, the counselor reached his conclusion. "You're going to lose," he told Mary. "You had better just adjust to it because there's no use trying to beat him." Mary was strong-willed and intelligent herself, her husband recalls, "but she came around to accepting that it was futile trying to compete with...
There are worse problems than hope. For years, in any of the mostly gay neighborhoods around the U.S., it was common to run across old friends turned stick figures, men carved to the bone by illness. Thirty-year-olds studied the writings of Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the psychologist who identified the stages in which the dying accept their fate and dryly marked their own progress, good schoolboys acing their last assignment. And everyone had a story about ashes. You heard about Dale, whose ashes blew back into everyone's face because the wind was coming ashore that...
...possible health and legal hazards and then give choices for what can be done. You may say something like, "So I want you to decide whether you would prefer to go to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting or our doctor, who is experienced in drug use, or a psychologist or counselor." If drug use were to be viewed primarily as the medical problem it is, we would have more resources to address for preventing and treating drug addiction instead of spending most of our money criminalizing use, which has had virtually no effect...
...with synthesis and gusto; feeling empowered to go beyond the bounds of the assignment to integrate and think--this is what learning is about. How ironic that it is often when one becomes less concerned about grades and more concerned about learning that better grades ensue. --Robert Read, Ed.D., Psychologist, Bureau of Study Counsel
DIED. EVELYN HOOKER, 89, UCLA psychologist whose research in the 1950s led to the removal of homosexuality as a psychological disorder from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual; in Santa Monica, California...