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Sanford I. Berman (aka Dr. Michael Dean) Dr. Sanford I. Berman is a philanthropist, professional hypnotist, and Board Member of the Institute for General Semantics. As of the year 2000, Berman had given more than a million dollars to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD); San Diego State University (SDSU); and University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV).^[1] Berman endowed the Sanford I. Berman Institute for Effective Communication and General Semantics at SDSU in 1997, the Sanford I. Berman Chair in Language and Human Communication at UCSD in 1998, and the Dr. Sanford I. Berman Professorship of Public Discourse and General Semantics at UNLV in 1999.^[1]

Books by Dr. Berman include Words, Meanings and People, The Closed Mind, How to Lessen Misunderstandings, and Why Do We Jump to Conclusions?. Berman acted as editor for Logic and General Semantics ^[2] and with Irving Lee Language Habits in Human Affairs ^[3] . He has also created over 100 audio tapes on motivation and general semantics.^[1]