On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 08:42:15 -0700, Scott O Lilienfeld wrote: > >Yes, it's indeed odd... > >I would note, though, that Seligman had previously published work on >explanatory styles in U.S. presidential candidates and other politicians, so >her dissertation isn't entirely outside of Seligman's area of interest, e.g.: > >Zullow, H., Oettingen, G., Peterson, C., and Seligman, M.E.P. (1988). >Pessimistic explanatory style in the historical record: Caving LBJ, >Presidential candidates and East versus West Berlin. American Psychologist, 43, >673-682. > >(BTW, "Caving" refers to "CAVE," the "content analysis of verbal explanations," >developed, I believe, by Peterson, Seligman, and others). > >But I agree with Mike that this is hardly a traditional dissertation topic in >clinical psychology. It's indeed possible that her Ph.D. was in an area other >than clinical psychology, and that she only received formal or informal >clinical training (e.g., as a postdoc) later. Not sure.
A couple of more points to add to the oddness: (1) At the U of Penn library, they list Miller's dissertation as being in the graduate school of arts and sciences, so even though Dissertation Abstracts qualifies it as "educational psychology", it doesn't appear to have been done at Penn's Graduate School of Education; see: http://www.franklin.library.upenn.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?v2=1&ti=1,1&SEQ=20120812134507&Search_Arg=lisa%20Friedman%20Miller&Search_Code=GKEY%5E%2A&CNT=50&PID=krxtlidMkvxlSvtgpC5SVxwLauOfs&SID=1 (2) Strangely enough, books.google.com has a copy (no preview) but lists Miller and Seligman as authors; see: http://books.google.com/books?id=vewpGwAACAAJ&dq=%22lisa+friedman+miller%22&source=bl&ots=TjSATsgywA&sig=QagTIX8NOzrQB6KuKWkF7b1HljY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A-onUOCXHYTc0QHE7oHQDA&ved=0CDkQ6AEwAQ What is also strange is that Dissertation Abstracts says that the dissertation has 69 pages, Penn library has 63 pages, and the Google Books version says that it is 126 pages long. Perhaps Seligman wrote some additional material that is included in the Google Books version? But if this were true, why is it not apparently available anywhere? The World Cat system shows only three libraries with a copy (i.e., Penn, Baylor, and Texas A&M but all 63 pages). It is also possible that Google Books did two sided scanning and half of the pages are the blank backs. (3) Seligman cites Lisa Friedman Miller in his 2007 updated digital version of "What You Can Change and What You Can't"; see: http://books.google.com/books?id=MreWP9jEbKMC&pg=PT24&lpg=PT24&dq=%22lisa+friedman+miller%22&source=bl&ots=YN9_u9yq0v&sig=YNgY1W58YjnJcINWHFUmIaWV3Ec&hl=en&sa=X&ei=A-onUOCXHYTc0QHE7oHQDA&ved=0CDMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22lisa%20friedman%20miller%22&f=false Seligman appears to be the only person who refers to her as Lisa Friedman Miller. He also thanks her in a footnote for being a "diagnostic interviewer" in a 1999 "Prevention & Treatment" article; see: http://www.positivepsychology.org/depprevseligman1999.pdf Why would Seligman continue to refer to her as Lisa Friedman Miller when she never self-identifies herself as such (outside of her dissertation)? Things that make you go "Hmmmm..." -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=19683 or send a blank email to leave-19683-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
