Word: psychologistic
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Until now they reported on homosexuality not as an intrinsic evil but as a simple data point while addressing a candidate's psychosexual maturity. A few seminaries nonetheless regard the information as crucial. When a psychologist reports a candidate's describing his prior dating life as "'I didn't go with a girl, I went with a guy for three years,' that's usually a game stopper," says Monsignor Steven Rohlfs, rector at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmetsburg, Md. But most in his position are more accepting. Plante reports that one West Coast diocese responded to rumors...
...sounds reasonable enough--but although dissociative identity disorder has an entry in the DSM-IV, psychology's official manual, it's still highly controversial. "I believe he believes he had all those separate personalities," says Joe Scroppo, a clinical psychologist and director of North Shore University Hospital's Forensic Psychiatry Program in Manhasset, N.Y., "but I don't think that's necessarily the way it is." Studies have suggested that patients can be convinced that they have memories of childhood sexual abuse that never actually occurred. And sometimes, says Scroppo, therapists use multiple personality as a metaphor for a patient...
Saturday, October 1. “Abducted,” by Susan A. Clancy. Harvard-trained psychologist explains how people come to believe they were abducted by aliens. Harvard University Press...
...incentives, making your daughter's direct receipt of any money contingent on her passing regular drug tests. You might also provide more access to money after a specified period of being clean. Incentives, however, will tend to protect your money more than motivate your daughter, says David Crausman, a psychologist at the Waismann Institute in Beverly Hills, Calif., because addicts really recover only when they're ready. So none of this is foolproof. Still, as we know only too well, whatever our child's age or our imagined level of control, there's nothing foolproof about being a parent...
...disenchanted with corporate America, are spurred by a desire to control their own destiny. In striking out on their own, they feel a powerful sense of liberation and of not giving a rip what others think--two emotions that tend to accompany aging, observes Debra Mandel, a Los Angeles psychologist who counsels seniors. And they recognize that if they are going to take a leap, now is the time...