Person Profile




Person Profile: J. Scott Richards, PhD

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

Lauri Yablick, PhD

     “Scott Richards typed his dissertation by a river,” Kris Hagglund told me. “If I remember correctly, he took an old Volkswagen camping van and spent his days alternately fly fishing and writing.” Hagglund suggested I confirm this with Richards, but threatening a perfectly good psychological truth with the possibility of […]

Chuck Merbitz, PhD

Monday, June 12th, 2006

Lauri Yablick, PhD
Chuck and Nancy Merbitz are this association’s love story––at least the one that went public. And that was to have been the focus of this profile, with bits about each of them building to a crescendo of met, married, and lived happily ever after.
Sorry, wrong writer. Nancy realized it first, listening to […]

Person Profile: Michael Dunn, PhD

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Lauri Yablick, PhD
I first noticed Michael Dunn a few years ago at the American Association of Spinal Cord Injury Psychologists and Social Workers’s (AASCIPSW) annual conference where he was rousing a little rabble with an ill-timed public complaint about accessibility at the Riviera Hotel. I never knew why the timing was off, and […]