The concept of repressed memories itself is, according to psychologist Chris French of the University of London, highly questionable.
"If there's any kind of selfish interest at stake, like secretly hoping for a return favour or even doing it deliberately because you know it will make you feel good, then that doesn't really count at all," says psychologist Michael Platt of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, North Carolina.
Alternatively, Dr Richard Wise, psychologist at Windana Drug and Alcohol Recovery, believes the relationship between work and drinking may be bi-directional.
The social psychologist Peter Marsh, who has died aged 67, was fearless in the investigations he undertook.
The psychologist Paul Rozin and colleagues also discovered that students at the University of Pennsylvania were much likelier to describe their university as "Ivy League" – which, technically, it is, though many Americans don't realise that – than students at Harvard, which everyone knows is an Ivy.
The perspective proposed by Swedish psychologist Heinz Leymann, father of workplace bullying research, is that we bully one another because of factors within our work environment, including the nature of our work and organisational culture.
First studied by psychologist Robert Bechtel in 1991, the third-quarter phenomenon emerged from anecdotal accounts of every-day life in cold regions.
It is probably no accident that all the countries that have national insurance programmes developed them when there was relatively little health insurance of any kind.Too, there is the kind of psychological defense mechanism documented in psychologist Daniel Gilbert's excellent book, Stumbling on Happiness.
In a book released several years ago called Dutch Women Don't Get Depressed a parody of French Women Don't Get Fat Dutch psychologist Ellen de Bruin explains that key to a Dutch woman's happiness is her sense of personal freedom and a good work-life balance.
"Laura?" he says, to the psychologist, Dr Laura Warren.
A starry coalition of concerned professionals, including Penelope Leach, an expert on child care, and Dorothy Rowe, a psychologist, have launched a campaign against plans to make pre-school care more structured and academic in style.
