1. George A. Miller, "Psychology as a Means of Promoting Human Welfare," American Psychologist 24 (December 1969):1074. [BACK]

1. George A. Miller, "Psychology as a Means of Promoting Human Welfare," American Psychologist 24 (December 1969):1074.

2. Ibid., 1065. [BACK]

1. George A. Miller, "Psychology as a Means of Promoting Human Welfare," American Psychologist 24 (December 1969):1074.

3. Ibid., 1066. [BACK]

4. Miller's address, for example, took place during the first meeting of the American Psychology Association ever to be devoted entirely to "Psychology and the Problems of Society," a programmatic decision that resulted from the activities of the Ad Hoc Committee of Psychologists for Social Responsibility before and during the 1968 meeting in San Francisco. In 1968 the Ad Hoc Committee proposed moving the 1969 meeting out of Chicago, where it had already been scheduled, to protest the police actions against demonstrators at the Democratic National Convention. Their proposal succeeded and the APA Council of Representatives voted to move the 1969 meeting to Washington, D.C. The Ad Hoc Committee then formed a new organization, American Psychologists for Social Action, and advocated that the relationship between psychology and society be the theme of the 1969 meeting. Although they succeeded here as well, Psychologists for Social Action organized a takeover of the session on "Psychology and Campus Issues," claiming that its radical agenda had been both ignored and co-opted. In addition to Miller's address, the official record of the conference includes both harsh criticisms and visionary statements from left-wing radicals about psychologists as social change agents capable of exacerbating and ameliorating a wide range of social problems. See Korten, Cook, and Lacey, eds., Psychology and the Problems of Society [BACK]

5. "A Larger Jurisdiction for Psychology" is the title of part I in Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being. [BACK]