The Romance of American Psychology
  Abbreviations
  Acknowledgments

  1  In the Name of Enlightenment
 collapse section2  War on the Enemy Mind
 •Mobilization for War
 •What They Did and What They Learned
 •Human Management
 collapse sectionEnemy Morale: Warfare Waged Psychologically
 •National Character: Personality Diagnosis and Treatment on an International Scale
 •The Sykewarriors on German National Character
 •The Sykewarriors on Japanese National Character
 collapse sectionThe Strategic Bombing Survey on German and Japanese Morale
 •Intelligence
 collapse section3  The Dilemmas of Democratic Morale
 collapse sectionU.S. Civilian Morale
 •Did Americans Have a National Character?
 •The Problem of Public Opinion
 •The Psychology of Prejudice and the Morale of Minority Groups
 collapse sectionMilitary Morale
 •Discovering Unreasonable Attitudes
 •Intergroup Tensions and the Mental State of Black Soldiers
 •Looking Toward the Future: Anxieties
 •Looking Toward the Future: Hopes
 collapse section4  Nervous in the Service
 •Who They Were and What They Did
 collapse sectionWar and the Production of Normal Neurosis
 •Self-Help: Emotional Preparedness as Military Strategy
 •Professional Help: The Psychotherapeutic Frontier Expands
 collapse section5  The Career of Cold War Psychology
 •Institutional Building Blocks: Defense Dollars
 •Ideological Building Blocks: Scientific Utility, Professional Gain, and National Security
 collapse sectionTheoretical Building Blocks:  The Psychological Basis of Development and Revolution in the Third World
 •Development
 •Revolution
 collapse sectionCamelot's Organizational Background
 •The Smithsonian Institution's Research Group in Psychology and the Social Sciences
 •The 1962 Symposium on "The U.S. Army's Limited-War Mission and Social Science Research
 collapse section6  Project Camelot and Its Aftermath
 •Project Camelot Described
 •Project Camelot Exposed
 •The Intellectuals Debate Professional Ethics
 collapse sectionAftermath
 •Direct Consequences
 •The Progress of Cold War Psychology
 collapse section7  The Damaging Psychology of Race
 •The World War II Dilemma
 collapse sectionTheoretical Building Blocks: The Psychological Basis of Racial Identity and Prejudice
 •Social Context as the Source of Prejudice
 •The Gender Problem and the Black Family
 collapse sectionPolicy and the Racial Politics of Self-Esteem
 •Brown v. Board of Education: Personality Damage as a Constitutional Issue
 •The Moynihan Report and the Question of Black Masculinity
 collapse section8  The Kerner Commission and the Experts
 •The Movement Context
 •The Kerner Commission Is Appointed
 collapse sectionThe Experts and Their Work
 •Masculine Self-Esteem Revisited
 •The City as Patient
 collapse sectionThe Benefits of War, Again
 •Cold War Psychology Comes Home
 •New Variations on Old Crowd Psychology
 •The Commission's Conclusions
 collapse section9  The Growth Industry
 collapse sectionThe State as Healer: Mental Health as Public Policy
 •The Role of the Veterans Administration
 •The National Mental Health Act of 1946
 •Community Mental Health as an Expression of Clinical Social Responsibility
 •Psychotherapy for the Normal as a Postwar Growth Industry
 collapse sectionThe Humanistic Tide
 •Carl Rogers: Inherent Capacity as a Scientific Basis for Democracy
 •Abraham Maslow: Democracy for the Self-Actualized Few
 •"Adjusted to What?"
 collapse section10  The Curious Courtship of Psychology and Women's Liberation
 collapse sectionPsychology Constructs the Female
 •The Critique is Formulated
 •The Place of Antipsychiatry and Radical Therapy
 •Feminist Activists Challenge the Psychological Establishment
 collapse sectionPsychology Constructs the Feminist
 •Betty Friedan and the Forfeited Female Self
 •"Identity"
 •The Psychotherapeutic Sensibility in Feminism
 collapse section11  Toward a Larger Jurisdiction for Psychology
 •The Benefits of War
 •Psychology as Public Policy
 •Psychology as Public Culture
 •"A Larger Jurisdiction for Psychology"

 collapse sectionNotes
 •Key to Abbreviations in the Notes
 •Archival Sources
 collapse sectionCongressional Hearings and Reports
 •U.S. House of Representatives
 •U.S. Senate
 •1 In the Name of Enlightenment
 •2 War on the Enemy Mind
 •3 The Dilemmas of Democratic Morale
 •4 Nervous in the Service
 •5 The Career of Cold War Psychology
 •6 Project Camelot and Its Aftermath
 •7 The Damaging Psychology of Race
 •8 The Kerner Commission and the Experts
 •9 The Growth Industry
 •10 The Curious Courtship of Psychology and Women's Liberation
 •11 Toward a Larger Jurisdiction for Psychology
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