Word: psychologistic
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...Psychologists and ethicists do not question Mack's sanity so much as his motives and methodology. They charge that he is misusing the techniques of hypnosis, trying to shape the "memories" of his subjects to suit his vision of an intergalactic future, and very possibly endangering the emotional health of his patients in the process. "If this were just an example of some zany new outer limit of how foolish psychology and psychiatry can be in the wrong hands, we'd look at it, roll our eyes and walk away," says University of California, Berkeley, psychologist Richard Ofshe...
...kids of lousy parents grow up to be killers. Thus some researchers suspect that biology plays a strong role. Psychologist Robert Hare of the University of British Columbia has completed a study in which he and an associate monitored the brain waves of psychopaths as they responded to emotion-laden words, such as rape, cancer, death, and neutral words like table and chair. The team found that normal people responded quickly to emotional words; the psychopaths showed no such activity -- all words were neutral...
...reasons. Despite its higher intensity and death toll, the Loma Prieta quake inflicted only 10 aftershocks of 3.5 or greater magnitude, compared with more than 150 in L.A. But the main cause is probably L.A.'s "layered" collective trauma. "Previous traumatic experiences have not yet worked themselves out," says psychologist Michael Gellert. "This makes three catastrophes in a year and a half: the riots and their atmosphere of tension perpetuated by the trials, then the fire storms just a couple of months ago, and now the quake. It's layer upon layer. And what this does is magnify people...
...some obligation to check out the accusation. In this case, a modest amount of reporting would have shown the charges to be suspect. Repressed memory is controversial to begin with, and the hypnotist who jogged Cook's memory is in the graphic-arts business and is not a licensed psychologist. The evidence was flimsy. There was no telltale inscription in a book Bernardin was supposed to have given him, and Cook's photo of the two of them was a group graduation photo, one of thousands Bernardin...
Jansen went back to his quarters that night, sat down and wrote the four words that he had been penning to himself for the past two years. The mantra, given to him by sports psychologist Jim Loehr, said, "I love the 1,000." Problem is, Jansen didn't. "I was afraid of it," he admitted...