Word: psychologistic
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...skates in Lillehammer, she will face a chilly reception from a panel of judges reluctant to bestow gold on a skater who has cast so dark a shadow over the sport. "Subconsciously they're probably going to mark her down," says Seppo Iso-Ahola, a University of Maryland sports psychologist...
...championship last year in Prague. Expected to win, she went home without a medal. The failure changed her life. She intensified her training, did double and even triple run-throughs of her long program -- a feat requiring great reserves of physical stamina and mental energy -- and consulted a sports psychologist to combat what seemed like a will to lose...
...EXPERTS. If the abuse case comes to trial, expert witnesses will be asked to fit Jackson's public behavior to the psychograph of a child molester. "What we see in the pattern of a fixated offender," notes clinical psychologist Nicholas Groth, co-author of Sexual Assault of Children and Adolescents, "is that he seems to get along well with people significantly older than him and those who are younger. He has a significant absence of peers. He lives more in the world of childhood than the adult world." And when the sex is gay, the offender is often homophobic, Groth...
...Psychologist Ofshe is particularly disdainful of the concept of what he calls "robust" repression: the instantaneous submergence of any memory of sexual abuse. Recovered-memory therapists, he says, "have invented a mechanism that supposedly causes a child's awareness of sexual assault to be driven entirely from consciousness." According to these therapists, Ofshe explains, "there is no limit to the number of traumatic events that can be repressed, and no limit to the length of time over which the series of events can occur." Belief in robust repression, he concludes, "can be found only on the lunatic fringes of science...
...Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein had also been Jung's mistress; Jung...