Foreword by M. Brewster Smith Preface Introduction The Psychologist as Scientist The Psychologist as Government Consultant The Psychologist as Social Activist The Beginnings of a Contextualist Role Can Psychology Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War? The Psychologists' Manifesto Psychology and Atomic Energy Common Statement Interviews Bibliography Index
MARILYN S. JACOBS is a clinical psychologist in private practice. She received a doctorate from the California School of Professional Psychology and holds membership in the American Psychological Association, International Council of Psychologists, and Psychologists for Social Responsibility
?A well-researched account of how individual psychologists and
organizations have tried to meet the challenge of the nuclear
age.?-Reference & Research Book News
?Jacobs, a psychologist in private practice, has put together a
good introduction to the history of American psychology in the
antinuclear movement. This balanced work is based on a fairly
thorough review of the literature and includes interviews with
several dozen psychologists and other social scientists. The
apparatus includes an index an extensive bibliography, several
appendixes, and excellent footnotes. Jacobs does not stress
psychoanalytic theory, polemics, or reviews of empirical studies.
This book is really just a history that starts in the late 1930s
with the "parlor pinks" of the Depression, picks up in the late
1940s with concerns about the atomic bomb, and goes into the 1980s
nuclear freeze campaign. . . . This work, however, remains
essential reading to anyone interested in either the history of the
peace movement or the history of American psychology. Recommended
for graduate libraries.?-Choice
"A well-researched account of how individual psychologists and
organizations have tried to meet the challenge of the nuclear
age."-Reference & Research Book News
"Jacobs, a psychologist in private practice, has put together a
good introduction to the history of American psychology in the
antinuclear movement. This balanced work is based on a fairly
thorough review of the literature and includes interviews with
several dozen psychologists and other social scientists. The
apparatus includes an index an extensive bibliography, several
appendixes, and excellent footnotes. Jacobs does not stress
psychoanalytic theory, polemics, or reviews of empirical studies.
This book is really just a history that starts in the late 1930s
with the "parlor pinks" of the Depression, picks up in the late
1940s with concerns about the atomic bomb, and goes into the 1980s
nuclear freeze campaign. . . . This work, however, remains
essential reading to anyone interested in either the history of the
peace movement or the history of American psychology. Recommended
for graduate libraries."-Choice
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