Word: psychologists
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...Research. Its purpose: to subject psychic phenomena to something like scientific testing, conducted with an open mind but a skeptical spirit. Three years later, an American society was formed along even more stringent lines, with membership consisting of scientists, not scholars. The best known among them was philosopher and psychologist William James, brother of the novelist Henry and one of the enduring figures of American intellectual history...
...steady until the past week, Rusty told him. Asked if she were suicidal, Andrea murmured "No" to Saeed. He did not ask if she thought of hurting others. Again Saeed adjusted her dose of antidepressants, but no Haldol, Rusty says. The psychiatrist then suggested, "Maybe you can see a psychologist." Before she walked out, Saeed turned to Andrea and said that he needed her help. Find new ways of controlling the mind, he told her. "Think positive thoughts...
...sessions with psychologist James Thompson, whose medical records were released by defense lawyers, Andrea said things she would never confess to her husband. Her attempt to commit suicide, she explained to Thompson, was her way of heading off what the visions and voices were leading to. "I had a fear I would hurt somebody. I thought it better to end my own life and prevent it," she said. What others saw as her silence and nervousness, she said, were her attempts to restrain herself from acting out and causing harm...
DIED. John Money, 84, pioneering Johns Hopkins University sex researcher and psychologist who, during the 1960s, when any form of sexual ambiguity was deemed freakish, helped establish and legitimize the study of sexual identity; in Towson, Md. Stressing the psychological effects of gender issues, he consulted on the first sex-change operation at Hopkins and coined the terms gender identity and gender role...
...Students and their parents increasingly fight over who gets to be number one, and the damage that can be done - both academically and psychologically - to those who lose out far trumps the benefits of the glory attached to such titles, according to Dr. Scott Hunter, a clinical psychologist and school consultant at the University of Chicago Hospitals who specializes in pediatric neuropsychology."The reality is that we have made in the last 10 years more of rank than it deserves because some kids don't really shine until they enter into adulthood, and they risk being ignored by the very...