Preferred Citation: Herman, Ellen. The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1995 1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft696nb3n8/


 

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Walden Two, 8 , 268

War, psychological analysis of, 17 -47, 48 -81, 95 -112, 124 -152, 153 -173, 177 , 305 -306, 307

"War of the Worlds," 54

War on Poverty, 13 , 193 , 201 , 205 -206, 208 -255

War Relocation Authority, 26 , 28 , 332 n. 33

Wartime Communications Research Project, 32

Watson, Goodwin, 32 , 49

Weisstein, Naomi, 280 -282, 284 , 290 , 297

Welles, Orson, 54

Wellesley College, 133 , 281

West Point, 149

Western Behavioral Sciences Institute, 266

Westmoreland, William, 167 , 227

What the Soldier Thinks,67

White Collar, 6

"Why We Fight," 70

Whyte, William H., 240

William Alanson White Psychiatric Foundation, 86 , 325 n. 59

Wilson, Elmo, 151

Wirtz, W. Willard, 200

Wolf, Eric, 164

Wolfe, Dad, 135 , 148

Women's Army Corps, 74 , 89

Women's Equity Action League, 289

Women's liberation. See Feminism

World War I: military mental testing, 55 , 64 , 85 , 92 , 181 , 335 n. 82;

propaganda, 23 , 30 , 55

World War II: employment of psychological experts in, 18 , 84 ;

intelligence, 29 , 43 -46, 305 ;

internment of Japanese-Americans, 26 -29, 27 (photo), 60 , 175 , 227 , 305 ;

man-machine engineering, 20 , 128 ;

military racial segregation, 72 -74, 175 -I76;

mobilization of psychological experts, 17 -25, 82 -95;

propaganda, 21 , 29 -30, 32 , 39 , 70 , 108 , 135 ;

psychiatric casualties in, 93 -100, 96 -97, 112 -119, 116 (photo), 127 , 238 , 241 , 242 -243, 278 , 310 ;

psychiatric discharge and rejection, 87 , 88 -90, 109 , 244 , 246 , 341 n. 29;

psychiatric screening, psychological testing, and psychotherapeutic treatment, 68 , 84 -90, 92 -94, 108 , 110 , 112 -119, 114 (photos) 314 ;

psychological warfare, 21 -22, 29 -31, 34 , 36 , 38 -46, 108 ;

public opinion, 21 , 30 , 31 , 53 -57, 305 , 333 n. 43;

rumor control, 50 , 57 ;

shortage of clinical professionals, 87 -88, 90 -91, 118 , 243 , 246 ;

sykewar (see Psychological warfare);

watershed in the history of psychological experts, 5 , 19 , 74 -81, 82 -84, 118 -123


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World War II morale, 29 -32, 42 -43, 83 , 305 , 314 ;

democratic, 51 -53, 69 -72, 180 ;

enemy, 29 -43, 305 ;

minority group, 61 -62, 72 -74, 332 n. 33;

U.S. civilian, 48 -66;

U.S. military, 66 -74, 99 -100

Wortis, S. Bernard, 246

Wylie, Philip, 278


 

Preferred Citation: Herman, Ellen. The Romance of American Psychology: Political Culture in the Age of Experts. Berkeley:  University of California Press,  c1995 1995. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft696nb3n8/