Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salter is a quick, intense, 30-year-old Manhattan psychologist who has made a very good thing out of mesmerism. His psychotherapy by means of autohypnosis (TIME, June 2, 1941) is currently a Park Avenue rival of psychoanalysis. For fees from $1,000 up, he has greatly helped a golf professional who was off his game, brooding artists, jittery businessmen, neurotic housewives, drunks, insomniacs, kleptomaniacs - usually in not more than six sessions. Some enthusiasts think that Salter's methods actually threaten psychoanalysts...
...TIME, June 7) but also through its new self-teaching textbooks. It had evidence that fighters were grabbing the chance. To Usafi chief Colonel Francis Trow ("Franny") Spaulding (TIME, Feb. 7) had come from Italy this V-letter from his old Harvard contemporary Irving Chamberlin Whittemore, a Boston University psychologist transformed into an antiaircraft lieutenant colonel...
...many a laboratory worker knows. And a shrill noise may throw them into something like an epileptic fit. This elementary experiment has long served as an introduction to the study of fear. Last week, however, some very contradictory rat findings were reported in Science by a Johns Hopkins psychologist, William J. Griffiths...
...judge, Brooklyn's famed onetime criminal lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, was not quite convinced. When Goldman accurately described a mole on Mrs. Hancock's hip, Judge Leibowitz began to investigate, soon unearthed evidence that Goldman's story might be true. Thereupon the judge called in a psychologist and tested Goldman with a psychogalvanometer which, by recording electrical impulses in a man's skin, is supposed to show whether he answers questions truthfully. The lie detector gave Goldman 100% and Judge Leibowitz gave him his freedom...
Joseph Addison was not talking about the drinking man, but he might as well have been. The character of drinkers has had some rare laboratory study recently by Professor Theodore F. Lentz, of St. Louis' Washington University. At the University's Character Research Institute, Psychologist Lentz and his associates made some thoroughgoing inquiries into the views on life and morals of several hundred drinkers and teetotalers. They were all young (17 to 30), fairly well educated (at least high school), and included no chronic drunks. Among this relatively homogeneous group of men & women, Lentz found some very wide...