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Gordon W. Allport
Gordon W. Allport , 1897-1967, American psychologist, b. Montezuma, Ind. One of the first psychologists to study personality , Allport researched human attitudes, prejudices, and religious beliefs. His theory of personality, which rejected both Freudian psychology and behaviorism, emphasized the un... Read more
Gustave Le Bon
Gustave Le Bon , 1841-1931, French psychologist and sociologist. He was the author of a number of works on social psychology, in which he expounded theories of national traits and racial superiority. His works include Psychologie des foules (1895; tr. The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind, 1897... Read more
Conwy Lloyd Morgan
Conwy Lloyd Morgan 1852-1936, English psychologist. Professor of zoology at University College, Bristol (1887-1909), he served as first vice chancellor of the Univ. of Bristol (1909-10) and was professor of psychology and ethics until his retirement in 1919. He was one of the founders of animal psy... Read more
Franz Brentano
Franz Brentano , 1838-1917, German philosopher and psychologist. He was a teacher (1866-73) at Würzburg, and in 1874 he became professor of philosophy at Vienna. In 1880 he retired to write and study. His best-known book, Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkte (1874), attempts to establish p... Read more
Hans Jurgen Eysenck
Hans Jurgen Eysenck , 1916-97, British psychologist. Best known for his theory of human personality, Eysenck suggested that personality is biologically determined and is arranged in a hierarchy consisting of types, traits, habitual responses, and specific responses. A staunch critic of psychoanalysi... Read more
Kurt Koffka
Kurt Koffka , 1886-1941, American psychologist, b. Germany, Ph.D. Univ. of Berlin, 1908. Before settling permanently in the United States in 1928 as a professor at Smith, he taught at Cornell and at the Univ. of Wisconsin. With Max Wertheimer and Wolfgang Köhler he is credited with developing t... Read more
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl
Lucien Lévy-Bruhl , 1857-1939, French philosopher, psychologist, and ethnologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1899 and editor of the Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger. Particularly known for his research on the mentality of preliterate peoples, he wrote nume... Read more
William James McGill
William James McGill 1922-97, American educator and psychologist, b. New York City, grad. Fordham (A.B., 1943) and Harvard (Ph.D., 1953). A specialist in psychophysics and mathematical psychology, he was professor of psychology at Columbia (1956-65) and at the Univ. of California at San Diego (1965... Read more
Edward Bradford Titchener
Edward Bradford Titchener , 1867-1927, American psychologist, b. Chichester, England, grad. Oxford, 1890. He studied in Leipzig (Ph.D. 1892) under Wundt (whose Principles of Physiological Psychology he translated), and in 1892 he became head of the new psychological laboratory at Cornell, where he... Read more
Graham Wallas
Graham Wallas , 1858-1932, English political scientist and psychologist. He joined (1886) the Fabian Society and was the author of one of the Fabian Essays. In 1914, Wallas became professor of political science at the Univ. of London. In his lectures and writings he studied the psychological fac... Read more

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Psychologist, School
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education PSYCHOLOGIST, SCHOOL School psychology is the application...of providing services in which the psychologist works to alter the attitudes and behaviors...most school districts, the school psychologist works with a pupil personnel services...
Psychology/Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Psychology/Psychologist The science which studies behavior and mental processes. As psychology...knowledge about the field. With the ascendance of the Viennese psychologist Sigmund Freud and his method of psychoanalysis early in the twentieth...
Psychologist
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders Psychologist Definition A psychologist is a social scientist who studies behavior and mental processes, generally in a research or clinical setting. Description As psychology has grown and changed throughout history, it has been defined in numerous...
Forensic Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...typical criminal case, the forensic psychologist may be hired by a defense attorney...commonly entail the services of a psychologist, for example, if an insanity defense is being considered.) The psychologist is briefed on the circumstances...
Behaviorism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...human freedom. The British-American psychologist William McDougall (1871-1938) introduced...1912) and independently the American psychologist John B. Watson (1878 –...science. In 1879, philosopher and psychologist Wilhelm Wundt (1832 – 1920...
Wechsler, David
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...American experimental and clinical psychologist who developed new types of intelligence...Louis Lapique and the experimental psychologist Henri Pi é ron. Wechsler...Wechsler returned to New York City, as a psychologist with the Bureau of Child Guidance...
Counseling Psychology
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology ...their lives. While the counseling psychologist may diagnose, assess, and treat adjustment...than those encountered by the clinical psychologist. Clients of counseling psychologists...in particular areas. The counseling psychologist may use a number of tools in treating...
Feifel, Herman
Encyclopedia entry from: Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying Feifel, Herman American psychologist Herman Feifel was born in Brooklyn, New York...in 1942, where he worked first as an aviation psychologist and later as a clinical psychologist treating combat soldiers overseas. While assigned...
Burt, Cyril (1883–1971)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society ...the field. He was the first psychologist to function in the profession...university; the first educational psychologist; the author of a number of...mental abilities; and the first psychologist to be honored with knighthood...
Conformity
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...economically or socially. The social psychologist Leon Festinger (1919 – 1989...remain a member. During the 1950s, psychologist Solomon Asch conducted a series of...this effect. Research in the 1990s by psychologist David A. Wilder has shown that people...

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psychologist
Book article from: A Dictionary of Nursing psychologist (sy- kol -ŏ-jist) n...study of the mind. clinical p. a psychologist trained in aspects of the assessment...works in a hospital. educational p. a psychologist trained in aspects of the cognitive...
Behaviorism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...dominated by the work of the comparative psychologist John B. Watson, and a later stage...Views It." Watson was a comparative psychologist interested in making psychology a real...with philosophy. As a comparative psychologist with interests also in developmental...
Delboeuf, Joseph Rémi Léopold (1831-1896)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...1896) Joseph Delboeuf was a Belgian psychologist and hypnotherapist. He was born in...points of view and one that led the psychologist to articulate his conception of memory...Delboeuf, whom he quotes: "every psychologist must acknowledge even his weaknesses...
Great Britain
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...support of psychoanalysis. The influential psychologist William McDougall, the research psychologist Sir Cyril Burt, the well-known clinician...Halse Rivers, psychiatrist, research psychologist, and anthropologist, who died prematurely...
Hall, Granville Stanley (1844-1924)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...GRANVILLE STANLEY (1844-1924) Psychologist, educator, and philosopher Granville...began his career as an educator and psychologist, devoting himself to a systematic...1923). Life and confessions of a psychologist. New York: Appleton. —...
Sechehaye, Marguerite (1887-1964)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...MARGUERITE (1887-1964) Swiss psychologist Marguerite Sechehaye was born on September...Jacques Rousseau, which was directed by psychologist É duard Clapar è de...and opened a private practice as a psychologist. Psychoanalyst Raymond de Saussure...
Caruso, Igor A. (1914-1981)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis CARUSO, IGOR A. (1914-1981) An Austrian psychologist and psychoanalyst, Igor Caruso was born February 4...euthanasia, he left the hospital and found work as a psychologist in a small neuropsychiatric clinic under the direction...
Pragmatism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...x2013; 1910), brother of novelist Henry James, was a psychologist, physician, and philosopher. For William James, pragmatism...Peirce's version of pragmatism. James was always more the psychologist, Peirce the logician and mathematician. Author of numerous...
Janet, Pierre (1859-1947)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...Janet was, along with Henri Bergson, the most famous French psychologist in the world, the student of two of the greatest minds in...physician, Janet had the educational background of the ideal psychologist outlined by Ribot. He entered the É cole Normale...
Lashley, Karl Spencer
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...joined the staff at the University of Chicago as research psychologist; and he became professor of psychology in 1929. From 1935...he married Claire Imredy Schiller, widow of the Hungarian psychologist Paul Schiller. Lashley was one of the world ’...

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analyst
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus analyst • noun  his analyst has recommended a rehabilitation facility synonyms : psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist, therapist; informal shrink.
therapist
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus therapist • noun  events he would speak of only to his therapist synonyms : psychologist, psychotherapist, analyst, counselor, psychoanalyst, psychiatrist; informal shrink.

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For student struggles, school psychologist gets call; County schools are hiring more psychologists to unravel complex learning problems and support the kids who suffer from them.
Newspaper article from: Lancaster New Era Lancaster, PA; 9/25/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...anything you knew about the school psychologist. The job has transformed, spurring...often just through observation, a psychologist can suggest little things that will...down a test differently. The school psychologist isn't the same as a mental health...
Psychologist still under investigation for death
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/30/1996; ; 520 words ; ...investigating the case of a Wausau psychologist who killed a patient during a struggle. The psychologist, who was released from a hospital...certainly tragic for all concerned." The psychologist told police that Robert Heisler, 58...
Court-appointed psychologist probably can't be sued.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 10/9/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...litem for the children and a private psychologist to evaluate me, my husband, and the...equally share the costs. I told the psychologist about the problem, as did my children...permanently disrupted. Can I sue the psychologist to make her pay for this avoidable...
Wausau man dead after struggle Office visit with psychologist turned violent, police say
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 8/22/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...before they found one man dead and his psychologist wounded from a violent struggle in...stress and who may have stabbed his psychologist during an office visit. Police said...came about 10 p.m. Tuesday from the psychologist. "He said, `I've been stabbed...
EGEL CAN KEEP WORKING AFTER ADMITTING ABUSE | PSYCHOLOGIST: CAN CONTINUE PRACTICE AFTER ADMITTING MISCONDUCT, SEXUAL ADVANCES
Newspaper article from: Herald-News (Joliet, IL); 10/20/2000; 700+ words ; ...JOLIET -- A court-appointed psychologist's confession to groping and...Dr. Lawrence Egel, a Joliet psychologist, admitted in court to accusations...to work as a court-appointed psychologist. "There's nothing pending...
SEC Seeks Psychologist to Boost Morale
News Wire article from: AP Online; 5/28/2004; 700+ words ; ...is looking to hire an organizational psychologist to improve employee attitudes and job...preferably a master's or Ph.D. The SEC psychologist is expected to make recommendations...grouse at the idea. They say hiring a psychologist is a waste of money and predict that...
Wanted: SEC psychologist
Newspaper article from: Oakland Tribune; 5/30/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...is looking to hire an organizational psychologist to improve employee attitudes and job...preferably a master's or Ph.D. The SEC psychologist is expected to make recommendations...grouse at the idea. They say hiring a psychologist is a waste of money and predict that...
Factors affecting clergy-psychologist referral patterns.(research)(includes statistical tables)
Magazine article from: Journal of Psychology and Theology; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; Recent research on clergy-psychologist collaboration has resulted in...Biblical Counselor or a Christian Psychologist, and was identified as either...interpersonal skills. In Study 2, psychologist respondents rated the likelihood...
SEC hopes to hire psychologist: to boost morale, fight burnout
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 5/29/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...is looking to hire an organizational psychologist to improve employee attitudes and job...preferably a master's or Ph.D. The SEC psychologist is expected to make recommendations...grouse at the idea. They say hiring a psychologist is a waste of money and predict that...
NORFOLK SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST RECEIVES TOP HONORS FROM STATE.(LOCAL)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 1/24/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...he said. John Brinkman, school psychologist, quietly watched from a corner desk...ago, when Brinkman became a school psychologist, he wouldn't have been in the classroom. A psychologist's job meant administering and evaluating...