Hi Thanks Mike ... very enlightening history. I too had done a search on psycinfo and found naught. One of the ironies given her flaky (?) views is that she describes herself as a behavioral psychologist, and a renowned one at that. Do people who are clearly divorced from science actually see themselves as being scientific, or just making associations for monetary reasons?
Take care Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Palij [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: July-06-15 4:28 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Cc: Michael Palij > Subject: Re:[tips] Ritberger Personality and Colour > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 04:05:17 +0000, Jim Clark wrote: > > Hi > > > > I wonder if there is any solid evaluation or legitimate review of > >Ritberger's (popular it seems) ideas about personality and colour? > > Do you mean this person? > > |Carol Ritberger, 51, Fair Oaks, CA > | > |Education/training. Ph.D. in religious philosophy from Life Church > |Ministries in Modesto, CA. Ritberger spent much of her adult life > |conducting team-building training classes for corporations. While > |eating a steak dinner in a restaurant, she suddenly went into > |convulsions and stopped breathing. > |Doctors believe she had an allergic reaction. When she was > |resuscitated, she saw light around people. "The medical diagnosis was > |that I was without oxygen to the brain long enough that it could have > |caused temporary visual impairment," Ritberger says. "The doctors say > |my eyes let in too much light." She says that's when she began seeing > |the human aura. > | > |Books: Your Personality Your Health, published by Hay House this fall. > | > |Fees: $125 per 90-minute reading by phone or in person. Selfr-eported > |earnings of $72,000 a year. > | > |Method "I call myself a bioenergetic diagnostician. I read the energy > |of the body. I can see the aura. I can also see inside the body-vital > |organs, tissue, muscle structure, skeletal structure. When an organ is > |not functioning properly, it throws up an exaggerated amount of red. If > |it's because of an emotional imbalance, it's > red-orange; > |if it has a psychological root cause, it's yellow-orange." > From: > "A Who's Who of Medical Intuitives." Good Housekeeping 07 1998: 108. > ProQuest. Web. 6 July 2015 . > NOTE: If you find that a person does not publish in academic journals but > only in > books, it's a good idea to do a search of newspapers to find if there are any > book reviews or news articles. Proquest has a fairly good database of > historical > and current newspapers. > A Google search will help find blogs and websites -- anyone know a better way > to search blogs? > > Ritberger does not show up on PscyInfo or Google Scholar or Jstor. > I did manage to find a single dissertation that cited her and here is the > reference > for it: > Ritberger, C. (1999). Interview with Carol Ritberger, Ph.D., Medical > Intuitive. > Retrieved February 14, 2004, from > http://www.spiritseeker.com/dec-jan99//ritberg2.htm > Unfortunately, the website ("Spiritseeker") no longer has this on its website. > > According to Amazon, here's what she published in the popular press: > http://www.amazon.com/Carol- > Ritberger/e/B001JRVH0U/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1436188390&sr=1-2-ent > > In summary, no, I don't think that there is a critical review of Ritberger's > theory > though some of the skeptics sources might have something. > > -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=13251.645f86b5cec4da0a56ffea7a891720c9&; > n=T&l=tips&o=45715 > or send a blank email to leave-45715- > [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=45720 or send a blank email to leave-45720-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
