Psychologists

Hedda Bolgar, renowned psychoanalyst, dies at 103

2013-05-18 14:04:00

Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...

Steve Lopez: She worked past age 100, inspired many more

2013-05-15 17:42:00

In 40 years of interviews as a journalist, I've never met anyone quite like Hedda Bolgar. The pioneering psychoanalyst, who�attended lectures by�Sigmund Freud as a young woman and fled�Vienna for the United States�when�the Third Reich�entered Austria,...

Dr. Joyce Brothers dies at 85; popular TV psychologist

2013-05-13 20:12:00

Fame was never her intent, Dr. Joyce Brothers often said. She was not yet 30, new to stay-at-home motherhood and struggling to help her husband stretch his pay as a medical resident when she came up with an ambitious plan: Transform herself into a...

Remembering Dr. Joyce Brothers: Movie and TV star

2013-05-13 16:47:00

Psychologist and columnist Dr. Joyce Brothers, who died Monday at the age of 85, won the top prize in 1955 on the popular TV game show "The $64,000 Question" on the subject of boxing. Smart, attractive and fearless, Brothers' media career quickly...

Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85

2013-05-13 15:56:00

Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...

A balanced guide to success

2013-05-10 21:28:00

The financial crisis fueled anger with the world's "takers" — those people who "like to get more than they give," in author Adam Grant's pithy definition. Everyone is searching for a sustainable formula for recovery that not only curbs damaging...

Annette Funicello dies at 70; Mouseketeer and 'beach' movie star

2013-04-09 00:00:00

If you were a girl in the 1950s, Annette Funicello was the ideal of feminine goodness, your fantasy best friend forever. If you were a boy, she was your dream date, demure, doe-eyed and just different enough to set hearts pounding. The most adored of...

Passing thoughts at L.A.'s first Death Cafe

2013-04-15 00:00:00

If you're going to talk about a subject most people don't want to talk about, why not do so over tea and cake and cookies? Why not gather in a sunny living room looking out on a lush tangle of green, where you can watch the breeze ruffle the leaves on...

Gabriel Byrne conquers 'Vikings'

2013-04-08 05:00:00

NEW YORK — If there's one thing Gabriel Byrne has learned in recent years, it's the importance of a comfortable chair. After a marathon 106 episodes as psychologist Paul Weston on the HBO drama "In Treatment," Byrne stars in "Vikings," History's...

Poems said to be handwritten by F. Scott Fitzgerald to be auctioned

2013-03-26 08:45:00

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote a sweet poem for actress Helen Hayes' daughter, Mary McArthur. Then, six years later, he penned her another one on the reverse of the same page that's, well, a little unsettling. Would you write to a 7-year-old about the "thumb-...

Anger issue: When phone goes from mobile to aerial

2013-03-23 00:00:00

On a recent evening outside a San Fernando Valley movie theater, a young man startled passersby when he hurled his cellphone onto the sidewalk. As he sheepishly picked up the pieces, he apologized and said he was having a bad day. It turns out he's...

King Richard III: A control freak, but not a psychopath?

2013-03-05 07:00:00

It was hard to find the physical remains of King Richard III. Imagine how hard, then, to psychoanalyze the man. That, nonetheless, is what Mark Landsdale, head of the University of Leicester School of Psychology, has attempted to do, with help from...

A forensic psychologist who spent 21 hours examining the man who killed three members of a Darien family testified that the gunman was intimidated by a Willow Springs man who is on trial for masterminding the slayings.

2013-05-07 00:00:00

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Clinical psychologist Tabatha Greene has joined the psychiatry department of Dreyer Medical Clinic in the West Downer Place location.

2012-10-15 14:09:00

Dr. Allison Grupski has joined Loyola University Health System as a clinical psychologist who specializes in behavioral weight management and bariatric surgery evaluation.

2012-08-14 08:58:00