Word: psychologists
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...rest to genetics. Liberal academics and blacks denounced Jensen as a racist. Margaret Mead and others staged an unsuccessful fight to strip the professor of his status as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In the uproar over the Jensenist heresy, one black psychologist angrily called IQ testing "a multimillion-dollar supermarket of oppression," and the National Education Association urged a moratorium on all IQ tests of the young...
DIED. Rose N. Franzblau, 77, Viennese-born psychologist whose column, "Human Relations," appeared in a dozen newspapers for 25 years, dispensing sugar-coated Freud and sensible solutions to family problems; of cancer; in New York City...
Most of these hopefuls still have to take that one-year requirement. Though they try to persuade Kenneth T. Dinklage, psychologist to UHS, that their low aptitude and hatred of languages constitutes a psychological barrier they cannot possibly surmount, Dinklage generally tells them politely that they are stuck. These several hundred students who have no physical reason for doing poorly in language courses "are the real victims," Dinklage says. "Those that have an identifiable disability get a waiver...
Dinklage is the only UHS psychologist who interviews students for language disability, and he says the number of students visiting him every year remains fairly stable. "Some of them try to act dyslexic. But essentially that would involve lying to an officer of the University. Most freshmen are trying to put their best foot forward and don't do that." Some students with real disabilities exaggerate their symptoms: "It's obvious they're malingering, but they are also covering up a real problem," Dinklage says...
...Florida, the critics are right: a reporter who flunked psychology in college became a licensed psychologist in Miami, a hamster was officially dubbed "animal psychologist" in Pensacola, and a pet chameleon was licensed as a psychoanalyst and sex therapist in Polk County...