Joseph B. Margolin (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Joseph B. Margolin. In the 1940s, Margolin was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. During that period, he was stationed at an Army hospital in California, and it was there that he developed an interest in clinical psychology. After being discharged, he returned to New York, where he received his doctorate in clinical and social psychology from New York University in 1954. He was always interested in combining his clinical activities with professional and political involvement, and held several positions including president of the District of Columbia Psychological Association, chair of the Maryland Board of Examiners for Psychologists, and staff member of the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Eugene E. Levitt (1921–1995).

Memorializes Eugene E. Levitt, a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology and a Diplomate in Experimental Hypnosis. He established one of the country's first American Psychological Association-approved internship programs at the Indiana University Medical Center in 1957. Among his important contributions were the following: his production of the often cited earliest overview of the effectiveness of psychotherapy with children, his conduct of the survey of Division 12 members from which the Beck system of Rorschach scoring and analysis was developed, his development and use of many MMPI special scales, and his series of studies of the effects of various incentives on volunteering for hypnosis experiments. He was President of the Indiana Psychological Association (IPA) in 1966–67 and IPA representative to the APA Council in 1967–68, 1981–84, and 1990–93. He was a fellow of the APA, the Society for Personality Assessment, the American Academy of Sexologists, and the International Council of Sex Education and Parenthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

B. Richard Bugelski (1913-1995).

B. Richard Bugelski, a scholar known for his contributions to learning theory in psychology, died on March 3, 1995, in Cheektowaga, New York, following a short illness. He was 81 years old. Bugelski is survived by his wife, Sadie Locurto Bugelski; two daughters, Victoria Stearns and Catherine Labuta; a sister, Victoria Schwartz, and four grandchildren. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Louis D. Cohen (1912-2000).

Memorializes Louis D. Cohen, known for his work as the founding chair of the Department of Clinical Psychology of the University of Florida. This program was the first nationally accredited program in the country within a health center setting. Cohen extended the vision of clinical application well beyond the office practice model and became one of the fathers of the community psychology approach. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituaries: Bertram D. Cohen (1923-2004).

Presents an obituary for Bertram D. Cohen, who made significant contributions to understanding basic psychological processes in schizophrenia--conceptual thinking, learning, perception, referential communication, self-concept--for over three decades. In groundbreaking experimental studies in collaboration with medical colleagues, he also explored the psychological effects of psychotomimetic and other drugs on clinical patients as well as nonclinical subjects. Dr. Cohen died on October 28, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Alan O. Ross (1921-1993).

Memorializes A. O. Ross, who had an active and influential role in the development of clinical psychology and made many contributions to behavior therapy. Ross wrote books concerned with behavioral approaches to clinical psychology, a specialty area he helped formalize in the establishment of Section 1 of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the American Psychological Association (APA). Ross was given the APA Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Clinical Psychology in 1982. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: George W. Albee (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for George W. Albee, a past President of the American Psychological Association (APA) and lifelong advocate of the importance of social change to deal effectively with mental disorders. His impact on psychology is reflected in the many awards he received in his lifetime, which included the APA Distinguished Professional Contribution Award in 1975, the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychology in the Public Interest in 1993, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Applied Preventive Psychology in 1997. With his passing, psychology lost one of the staunchest advocates of prevention as the most important approach to dealing with psychological ills. He was also a lifelong advocate for the disenfranchised. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

In memoriam: Hans H. Strupp (1921-2006).

Hans Hermann Strupp, who deeply influenced the field of psychotherapy research for 50 years, died on October 5, 2006, of Parkinson's disease. He was 85 years old. Hans entered the field when psychotherapy research largely focused on straightforward questions of general efficacy. Beginning with the publication of his dissertation in 1955, Hans demonstrated a keen ability of systematically applying rigorous scientific methods to phenomena that were close to the hearts of practicing therapists. Hans was an early advocate of the need for audio and video recording of therapy sessions for research purposes. The scientific study of the therapeutic process was a central focus of his research. Equal to his empirical contributions was Hans's talent as a writer and what many regard as his uncanny rhetorical abilities. This balance allowed him to engage in discussions with many scientists from radically different schools, which contributed to the foundation of the movement of psychotherapy integration. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hans H. Strupp (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Hans Hermann Strupp, internationally acclaimed clinical psychologist and psychotherapy research pioneer, who died October 5, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee, following a long struggle with Parkinson's disease. Hans Strupp elicited unusual respect across disciplines, including psychiatry and medicine, and across national boundaries in numerous countries. Hans was truly a person of great distinction; he brought honor to his friends, his discipline, his university, his nation, and his family. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Harold H. Kelley (1921-2003).

This obituary reports the death of Harold Harding Kelley, Professor Emeritus of Psychology at University of California (1921-2003). (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John J. Conger (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for John J. Conger. John Janeway Conger was both an extraordinary human being and an extraordinary psychologist. He died peacefully at the age of 85 on June 24, 2006, in Denver, Colorado, after a remarkable career that spanned five and a half decades and extended far beyond the pioneering work that he was known for in developmental and clinical psychology. He successfully took on many other important roles, both scholarly and administrative, yet remained a warm, caring and generous person, a combination all too rarely found in one individual. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

John W. Money (1921-2006).

John Money died of complications from Parkinson's disease the day before his 85th birthday. Always obsessed with language, Dr. Money (as everyone called him) co-opted the linguistic term of gender to help him explain the human paradox of hermaphroditism, the topic of his 1952 doctoral dissertation at Harvard. He came to the United States, where he completed a residency at the Western State Psychiatric Institute of the University of Pittsburgh in 1948. He then went to Harvard. In 1951, Lawson Wilkins, the founder of pediatric endocrinology, brought him to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Hospital. There, he essentially founded the field of psychoendocrinology when he established the Psychohormonal Research Unit for the long-term psychological study of individuals with intersexuality and other conditions. Money spent his entire professional career as a researcher at Hopkins, with dual appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. According to the John Money Collections at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, he had a total of 1,192 publications, including 402 scholarly articles, 140 reviews and editorials, 95 book chapters, and 48 books, which were translated into many languages. He was the recipient of more than 65 worldwide honors, awards, lectureships, or degrees. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

James A. Dinsmoor (1921-2005).

This article presents an obituary for James A. Dinsmoor. Jim Dinsmoor was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, on October 4, 1921, and died at his family's summer residence in Laconia, New Hampshire, on August 25, 2005. He received his bachelor of arts from Dartmouth College in 1943 with a major in political science, followed by a master of arts in 1945 and a doctoral degree in 1949, both in psychology, at Columbia University. He was among the pioneering group of students inspired and mentored by F. S. Keller and W. N. Schoenfeld in the days when B. F. Skinner's natural science of behavior was just beginning to gain recognition as a distinctively new approach to psychology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: David Bakan (1921-2004).

Presents an obituary for David Bakan, one of the most creative and provocative thinkers in psychology. David's best known paper on psychological method may be his critique of the test of significance in psychological research. David was one of the earliest psychologists to promote the use of Bayesian statistics as an alternative to conventional statistical approaches, first publishing on the topic in 1953. He was one of the founders of the American Psychological Association's Division 26, the History of Psychology, and served as the president of the division in 1970-71. He died in Toronto on October 18, 2004. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: William Schofield (1921-2006).

Obituary of William Schofield (1921-2006). William Schofield earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from Springfield College in 1942 (advisor, Harold Seashore). After graduation, he immediately enrolled at the University of Minnesota for graduate study. It was the beginning of a long career in clinical psychology at a time when the identity of the field was being established. With his unique set of attributes, he became a distinguished clinician, educator, and author, serving the field for decades. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Obituary: Irving E. (Irv) Sigel (1921-2006).

Presents an obituary for Irving E. Sigel, 84, an emeritus distinguished research scientist at the Educational Testing Service (ETS). Sigel was an internationally recognized scholar who published more than 100 scientific articles, chapters, and books. He also exemplified the best characteristics of the scholar-teacher. Sigel's research focused on representational competence: how people (children, students, parents, teachers, researchers) move from having a concrete, or basic, understanding to having an understanding that includes appreciation of what could happen and hindsight about what could have been, eventually using symbols to represent this understanding. This research, in turn, led him to study how teachers, parents, clinicians, and researchers might most effectively adjust the psychological distance of what they say--or how they question--in order to support the development of representational competence. A past president of APA Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) and of the Jean Piaget Society, from which he received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, Sigel also received many honors and awards both nationally and internationally for his contribution to the understanding of child development. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Reply to Cohen.

Suggests that the comment by the present author and colleagues (see record 1986-10765-001), that the perceived stress scale (PSS) developed by S. Cohen et al (see record 1984-24885-001) was inherently circular, was mainly a reaction to the face characteristics of the items of the scale. It is conceded that data showing that the PSS contributed modestly but significantly to health outcomes independently of psychological symptomatology should have been taken into consideration. Advantages and disadvantages of the hassles scale developed by the present authors and colleagues are discussed. (8 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Hugh Lytton (1921-2002).

Reports the obituary of Hugh Lytton (1921-2002), a distinguished scholar in the field of developmental psychology. A fellow of the British Psychological Society and the Canadian Psychological Association, Hugh had about 70 peer reviewed papers and chapters, plus many other publications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)