Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life of useful industry that it is loathe to let them wander about in search of the proper place to start employment. So in their senior year, about one half of each class enters a course in Industrial Psychology taught by George H. Estabrooks, a well-known psychologist and Colgate legend. "I explain the bases of industry and hope they'll absorb some Industrial Psychology. And, oh yes, I run the New York Placement office," says Dr. Estabrooks...
Your article on the Payne Whitney Clinic [Sept. 14] expresses with clarity the process of psychiatric treatment which is so often surrounded with mystery and befuddled explanations. As a clinical psychologist I am frequently asked to explain what psychotherapy is. In printing this article, TIME has made available to many readers an accurate account of "one of the hopeful arts of healing...
...handbook, compiled by Chicago's Central Television Service, Inc. (with the help of a psychologist) for its own and fellow TV technicians, has sold some 15,000 copies at $1 each. It assumes that repairmen normally meet housewives on their visits, and urges them to dress neatly, be cheerful and courteous, avoid body odor, wipe their shoes, show friendly interest in the customer (e.g., "This is a beautiful rug") and "always give the appearance of knowing what you're doing." The booklet sets up and knocks down some touchy problems...
...character is largely built on a relationship with "some exalted power lying outside himself," writes Chief Psychologist John A. Blake of the Central State Hospital at Petersburg, Va. in the current issue of Mental Hygiene. "Psychologists have observed that when such a relationship, early acquired and strongly rooted in the depths of man's personality in infancy and childhood, is either lost or seriously disturbed in later life, a conflict results, manifesting itself in some form and degree of personality disorder ... In such cases, one might rightly say that [a] man became literally 'sick in the spirit...
Statesmanship does not fit the rules. Political leaders (most of them, according to Psychologist Lehman, not original creative thinkers or artists) are usually not at their best till they are over 50. Moreover, today's statesmen are older, on the average, than in previous epochs. William Pitt the Younger became Prime Minister at 25 in 1784, Sir Winston Churchill not until...