Word: psychologists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rooting for a depression on the theory that "it would be good for the affluent to know how we feel." A few others, who are now comfortable but once suffered economic hardship, want their children to suffer as they did. On her lecture tours round the country, Psychologist Joyce Brothers has discovered that many parents "feel a depression would be good for their children. They themselves lived through the lean years, and now they see their kids rejecting the value of work. They are very exercised by the fact that a man would choose to be a musician rather than...
...ruling stemmed from a 1969 murder case. While receiving outpatient psychiatric help at a campus hospital, Prosenjit Poddar, then 26 and a student at the University of California at Berkeley, said he intended to kill his former girl friend, Tatiana Tarasoff, 20. On a psychologist's orders, he was briefly detained by campus police, who released him two hours later when he appeared rational. A hospital psychiatric supervisor ordered no further action against him. Two months later, Poddar stabbed Tarasoff to death with a butcher knife...
...Obviously the people that one talks to are the people that share some of one's own concerns. I have no idea what your average professional psychologist would think. But the people that I've talked to, which includes at least one woman psychiatrist and several males, all thought it talked to something they had all tremendously much observed, although maybe not put their finger on quite in that form, because each person's observations are all obviously a little bit different...
...Taboo, children "feel themselves more akin to animals than to their elders." Old people, particularly those living alone, often depend on pets for the companionship and warmth denied them by human society. Some behaviorists argue that the mentally disturbed can be helped by animals -"seeing-heart dogs," in one psychologist's phrase-to relate to reality...
...prosecuted. Nor will many state attorneys act against doctors who provide sex-related care to minors without parental approval. Many physicians would nonetheless like to see restrictions further eased. "We have failed to recognize the rights of children as people in many areas," says Dr. Lee Salk, pediatric psychologist at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "Teenagers should be treated as if they have the capacity for making decisions...