Politics and Psychology

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Political Leadership

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Shifting Images in Politics

      • Leanne Domash, Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

      Pages 3-10

   3. Some Reflections on Political Choice in America

      • Richard M. Zuckerberg

      Pages 11-22

   4. National Group Governance in Presidential Elections

      • Herbert Barry III

      Pages 23-41

   5. Collective Suicide at Jonestown

      • Domenico Arturo Nesci

      Pages 43-60

3. Presidential Profiles

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61

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   2. The Spelling and Seduction of Michael Dukakis

      • Spyros D. Orfanos

      Pages 63-81

   3. The Public Presidency

      • Theodore Otto Windt Jr.

      Pages 83-98

   4. George Bush

      • Paul H. Elovitz, Glen Jeansonne

      Pages 99-116

   5. Jimmy Carter and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

      • Betty Glad, Brian Whitmore

      Pages 117-142

   6. Presidents Carter and Sadat

      • Paul H. Elovitz, Mohammed Shaalan

      Pages 143-173

4. A Global Village?

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

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   2. The Gentle Revolution

      • Lloyd deMause

      Pages 177-184

   3. Growing Up in Nazi Germany

      • Luitgard N. Wundheiler

      Pages 185-206

   4. Bridging East and West

      • Olga Marlin, Nancy Smith

      Pages 207-228

5. Making War, Making Peace

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 229-229

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   2. Common Security

      • Rita R. Rogers

      Pages 231-237

   3. Growing Up in a Nuclear Age

      • Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

      Pages 239-251

   4. The Relevance of the Death Drive to the Nuclear Age

      • Lowell J. Rubin

      Pages 253-270

The world is a different place today.* Much of this has to do with the increasing volume and clarity of the people's collective voice. The power and pressing desire in man for autonomy, self-determination, and change are emerging as a demand. As a consequence, Communist governments are giving way to democratic re­ structuring, Europe is being recrafted, and the Cold War is slowly thawing. Simultaneously, back home, our government is becoming increasingly bogged down by media-created political images and psychodramas lacking in substance and value-the degree of exposure somehow determined more by commercial appeal (inherent sensationalism) than merit. The newborn child (Le., the budding democracies) is looking eagerly to Uncle Sam as a role model: throughout the world, people are quoting our political scriptures, our proclamations, our Bill of Rights, and yet as models we seem sorely lacking. Given this climate, this book intends to address a number of contemporary themes: the role of the media-symbolization, idealization, and projection---on political choice; the roles of group fantasy; and the more rational force of II group governance" on political elections; the personalities of our presidents and leaders, their psychic vulnerabilities, their public versus private personas and how this division interacts with the complex unraveling of historical events (for example, Jimmy Carter's response to crises in Afghanistan and Iran, Michael Dukakis and the 1988 campaign, George Bush's emergence as president, John F. Kennedy and his private versus public personas, Anwar Sadat as myth and symbol).

• Germany
• IRA
• autonomy
• child
• childhood
• complex
• death
• dynamics
• election
• elections
• integration
• presidential elections
• psychodrama
• psychology
• suicide

• Psychoanalytic Society of the Postdoctoral Program, Inc., New York, USA

  Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

• Brooklyn Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, Brooklyn, USA

  Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

• Yeshiva University Clinical Program and National Institute for the Psychotherapies, New York, USA

  Joan Offerman-Zuckerberg

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