Word: psychologistic
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...nonsense "Dear Abby" and "Ann Landers." In real life, they are twin sisters, Esther Pauline ("Eppie") Lederer (alias Ann Landers) and Pauline Esther ("Popo") Phillips (Abigail Van Buren), together the most widely syndicated columnists in the world, with upwards of 1,000 newspapers apiece. Says Loyola (Chicago) University Psychologist Eugene Kennedy: "Their columns are the national mailbag. The advice they give is fundamental common sense, and no one has ever improved on that...
Nevertheless, some advocates of holistic medicine are dabbling with it. Says Psychologist Eleanor Haspel-Portner of Los Angeles: "We have found that for some people it's a safe place, for others it's scary. But it has on the whole been very useful." Adds Dr. Elmer Cranton, president of the American Holistic Medical Association: "How could it not be beneficial to understand oneself-unless something is too heavy to handle...
Jean Piaget, 84, innovative Swiss psychologist who devoted his life to mapping out how children think. During a 60-year career, he published more than 50 books and evolved the theory that knowledge is not poured into a child like water into a cup but that a child helps create what he learns through his own activity...
...Uses of Enchantment, Psychologist Bruno Bettelheim addresses those problems by examining the implications of fairy tales. Weary of bedtime books that ignore or sugar-coat the real world, Bettelheim ransacks the stories for Freudian subtexts. In his view the Oedipal drama plays itself out in the giants that Jack slays and in the demands of scheming stepmothers. "While it entertains the child," he concludes, "the fairy tale enlightens him about himself, and fosters his personality development." The psychologist does not neglect aesthetics: "Fairy tales are unique not only as a form of literature, but as works of art which...
...children, and produced no lasting body of work. Except for a brief period teaching a history correspondence course to under-educated American women, she spent most of her adult life keeping house for her father and suffering from nervous attacks. William, her eldest brother, became America's foremost psychologist and one of the leading philosophers of the nineteenth century; another, Henry, now ranks among the greatest novelists in the English language. Alice, lacking their confidence and powers of expression, became an invalid. Like John Marcher, a character in one of Henry's later stories, her hallmark was "precisely to have...