Letters
Letters Based on my own experience I concur with Michael Nelson’s critique of psychology (December 1978 issue). Psychology is a good diagnostic tool but a poor therapeutic method. We can...
...Good management has also given the Bell System productivity gains that in recent times have averaged nearly three times that of industry generally...
...The lack of meaningful communication and progress prompts the psychologist to label the patient as a “loser...
...The 19th Amendment, of course, does no such thing...
...It is the 20th Amendment, in Section 3, as supplemented by the Presidential Succession Act of 1947, which provides for the line of succession to the duty of acting as President when there are vacancies in both the offices of President and VicePresident of the United States...
...CHARLES E. DYNES Washington, D.C...
...Pointing out the flaws would take as much space as the story.itself, but a statement on page 41 is typical: “AT&T’s engineers are now perfecting a system in which practically no one dialing long distance, even during periods of heaviest use, will get a busy signal due to crowded lines...
...Psychologist should turn away those patients who, after a few sessions, do not respond favorably...
...The dough-boys thought the initials stood for You Must Come Across...
...Haber is execuiive director of the Psychology Socieiy...
...That is simply good service-and good management...
...Often the two participants do not speak the same language-they function on two different levels with different values...
...Blythe Babyak in “The Plane: Cruising to Armageddon” in the December 1978 issue is incorrect in stating, “Of course, the 19th Amendment gives the order of presidential succession...
...It would not add to their income but it would increase their true worth...
...CHARLES COLVIN Lebanon, New Jersey I was astonished to read the story of AT&T in your January issue...
...This is a frustrating dilemma faced not only by psychologists but by many others: we see what is wrong but do not know how to make it right...
...Psychologists and their patients must realize this...
...Perhaps the Washington Y has reverted to the 1917-1918 stanceoftheorganization (See “Serving the Rich: The Washington Y” by Arthur ‘Levine, December...
...whose fees are paid by the referring agency...
...for others, another form of therapy may be called for...
...We can identify mental illness readily but we cannot cure it with alacrity...
...When phone lines are filled only at peak hours, the cost of idle capacity at other times is immense...
...Yet it is because they are losers that people seek and need help...
...In no respect did it approach the truth about the Bell System-or any part of its operations...
...For some, psychology does help...
...PIERRE C. HABER New York, New York Dr...
...Such a system has been in existence since the earliest days of long distance calling...
...Dwes is public relaiions director ,for A T& T in Washington...
...Others teach but never get involved with the problems of their students...
...The resulting impasse mitigates against a cure...
...Quite impressive-and quite expensive...
...And good management has been able to hold interstate rate increases down to only 10 percent since 1967-a period when the Consumer Price Index has more than doubled...
...Psychology is an aural-oral skill in which the listener seeks to help the speaker...
...During the First World War they soldin France the cigarettes, candies which had been given to them to distribute...
...I should think one of the author’s gender should know this...
...Rather, it states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex...
...And so have evening, night and weekend rates-as well as other means to stimulate use of the lines during off-peak hours...
...JAMES L. MCDOWELL Terre Haute, Indiana Professor McDoblell is director of the Center .for Governriienial Services ai Indiana Stare Universit I...
...Mental health specialists have retreated to structured situations: experiments in a lab or superficial therapy with disturbed persons, offenders, drug users, etc...
Vol. 10 • February 1979 • No. 11
