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  • noun Plural form of psychologist.

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  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 5/6/09: New article elucidates military psychologists 'complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' New article elucidates military psychologists\ 'complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: A new story on Salon and ProPublica provides further details of military psychologists\' complicity in US torture.

    New article elucidates military psychologists' complicity in detainee abuse and "ethics" coverup 2009

  • Psychologists respond to Vanity Fair revelations on psychologists 'responsibility for CIA torture yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Psychologists respond to Vanity Fair revelations on psychologists\ 'responsibility for CIA torture'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Vanity Fair Tuesday published shocking revelations on the role of psychologists in designing and conducting the CIA\'s torture regime in the black sites.

    Psychologists respond to Vanity Fair revelations on psychologists' responsibility for CIA torture 2007

  • In other words, the “family sculpting,” the name psychologists have given to this form of role play, is not a way for members to wallow in past injuries—or cathartically relieve them—but to begin to grasp some of the automatic impulses that shape their behavior.

    THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB LAURIE ABRAHAM 2010

  • (I should have used the term psychologists use: it doesn't "transport" me.)

    Psychology Today Daily Features 2010

  • She's appropriately outraged that many women don't get the medical care they need because they believe magical thinking -- a term psychologists use to describe irrational thought-patterns -- will defy the laws of physics and pull them through.

    Michael Sigman: The Fear Of Magical Thinking 2009

  • "Acting out" is a term psychologists use to describe emotions that don't really get processed at these higher levels of reasoning.

    Dr. Tian Dayton: Developing Emotional Literacy: Learning to Talk Out Rather Than Act Out 2008

  • Mitchell told acquaintances that he also drew important lessons from the theory of "learned helplessness," a term psychologists use to describe people or animals reduced to a state of complete helplessness by some form of coercion or pain, such as electric shock.

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • But even without solving the issue of the possible effectiveness of atheist chaplains, surely if the military agrees to create them there will have to be some new name for the profession, and I would assume they would fall more under the rubric of psychologists and other professionals who try to help those in need without professing, or utilizing, any particular faith.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Atheist Chaplains and the Church of Evolution Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • But even without solving the issue of the possible effectiveness of atheist chaplains, surely if the military agrees to create them there will have to be some new name for the profession, and I would assume they would fall more under the rubric of psychologists and other professionals who try to help those in need without professing, or utilizing, any particular faith.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Atheist Chaplains and the Church of Evolution Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

  • But even without solving the issue of the possible effectiveness of atheist chaplains, surely if the military agrees to create them there will have to be some new name for the profession, and I would assume they would fall more under the rubric of psychologists and other professionals who try to help those in need without professing, or utilizing, any particular faith.

    Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Atheist Chaplains and the Church of Evolution Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011

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