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...year collaboration between Freud and Carl Gustav Jung broke off abruptly in 1914, with profound consequences for the discipline they helped create. There would henceforth be Freudians and Jungians, connected chiefly by mutual animosities. Why did a warm, fruitful cooperation end in an icy schism? In A Most Dangerous Method (Knopf; $30), John Kerr, a clinical psychologist who has seen new diaries, letters and journals, argues that the growing philosophical disputes between Freud and Jung were exacerbated by a cat-and-mouse game of sexual suspicion and blackmail. Freud believed an ex-patient of Jung's named Sabina Spielrein...
...student body apparently possesses a poor understanding of the resources available. Many students have never heard of the programs or they believe that they are some type of "mushy" method in which the counselors have a list of positive adjectives to spit out when you call or drop in. It is not enough to advertise these programs in the Radcliffe pamphlets that barely anybody reads...
...most controversial topics covered in the course is "DNA typing," a method to identify a person on the basis of genetic information...
...typing] is so good a method for gettingscientific evidence that we shouldn't fudge thestatistics," he says...
...National Research Council (NRC), in a bookcalled DNA Technology in Forensic Science,proposed a "ceiling method" to get around theproblems with the process. According to NRCguidelines, any sample which matches the generalpopulation's gene pool more than 10 percent shouldnot be considered a conclusive match...