Word: psychologists
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Barker is a 40ish Harvard professor who has become a brilliant force in the world of psychology. Nurtured by the top psychologist in the department since his graduate school days, Barker follows in his mentor's footsteps by discarding Freud's psychoanalytic theories in favor of a number-crunching, laboratorystudy approach to psychology...
...been chronicled on stage and screen. But juvenile crime appears to be more widespread and vicious than ever before. "Burglars used to rob a house and then run away. Now they urinate or defecate in the home or burn it up before leaving," says Shawn Johnston, a forensic psychologist in Sacramento. "Thieves mugged a person and ran off. Now they beat their victims." Or rape or murder them...
...consequence of indifference and abuse, children are left emotional cripples, self-centered, angry and alienated. And fated to repeat the chilling lessons they have learned. "These children are dead inside," says psychologist Johnston. "For them to feel alive and important, they engage in terrible types of sadistic activity...
Such solutions offer only illusory security. Parents contend that they cannot control their children. And most youngsters are eventually released from jail. Many return more hardened than before. "You need to break delinquents from the group where antisocial behavior is reinforced," explains psychologist Michael Nelson of Xavier University in Cincinnati. "But we're caught in a catch-22 dilemma. We place delinquents in reform schools, where they have more access to individuals who are poor role models...
Mack received a bachelors degree in philosophy from Boston University in 1966 and a masters degree from the Graduate School of Education in 1970. He also earned a doctorate in clinical psychology at the University, and was a licensed Massachusetts psychologist...