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The Political Psychology Of Abortion: Some Implications Of Free Choice, Ibpp Editor Jul 2000

The Political Psychology Of Abortion: Some Implications Of Free Choice, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes some logical implications of a "free choice" position on abortion public policy.


Trends. Biopolitics And Anthrax: A United States Fiasco?, Ibpp Editor Jul 2000

Trends. Biopolitics And Anthrax: A United States Fiasco?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the biopolitical issues involved with the mass inoculation of United States military forces against anthrax.


Trends. The Attack On Mbeki: Praising Through Damning, Ibpp Editor Jul 2000

Trends. The Attack On Mbeki: Praising Through Damning, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the controversial contention by President Thabo Mbeki of the Republic of South Africa that poverty and lack of health infrastructures are the causes of AIDS and HIV in Africa instead of limiting his analysis to the biological line of virus inducing disease.


The Import Of Political Psychology For Global Health And Security: The Case Of Aids, Ibpp Editor Jul 2000

The Import Of Political Psychology For Global Health And Security: The Case Of Aids, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a number of applied research areas that political psychologists can explore to help manage the threat to global health and security from acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).


Trends. Problems In Cultural Transplants: From Aviation To Medicine, Ibpp Editor Jun 2000

Trends. Problems In Cultural Transplants: From Aviation To Medicine, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the issues with transferring aviation security to medical cultures.


Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor Apr 2000

Trends. Controlling Aids Through Control, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the concept of political control and public health in the context of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.


Trends. On Drugs? Response To The Peruvian Elections, Ibpp Editor Apr 2000

Trends. On Drugs? Response To The Peruvian Elections, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses electoral "dirty tricks" in the Peruvian election between President Alberto Fuimori and Mr. Alejandro Toledo. The article also discusses comments made by the head of the United States (US) Office of National Drug Policy and Control, General Barry R. McCaffrey.


Medical And Social Diseases: Can The Former Moderate The Latter?, Ibpp Editor Mar 2000

Medical And Social Diseases: Can The Former Moderate The Latter?, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes how medical disease may moderate social disease in an era of globalization.


Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor Feb 2000

Psychological Pathways To Minimizing Human Rights Violations Against Children, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article identifies several psychological pathways that governments and human rights organizations can employ to minimize human rights violations against children.


Falun Gong And The Politics Of Psychiatry, Ibpp Editor Feb 2000

Falun Gong And The Politics Of Psychiatry, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes political facets of the institution of psychiatry.


How Tuberculosis Threatens Supporters And Opponents Of Racial Profiling, Ibpp Editor Jan 2000

How Tuberculosis Threatens Supporters And Opponents Of Racial Profiling, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article explores peculiarities of logic and reason among supporters and opponents of racial profiling as a tool of developing and implementing public policy.


Trends. Drug Addictions: National Policy On Illicit Drugs, Ibpp Editor Dec 1999

Trends. Drug Addictions: National Policy On Illicit Drugs, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses the proposed integrating of drug testing and treatment into the various phases of the criminal justice process.


Trends. Deep In The Heart Of Texas: Threat Of Violence And The Duty To Warn, Ibpp Editor Oct 1999

Trends. Deep In The Heart Of Texas: Threat Of Violence And The Duty To Warn, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses violence in the mentally ill and the obligation to report potential threats.


Internet Addiction As Diagnostic Addiction, Ibpp Editor Sep 1999

Internet Addiction As Diagnostic Addiction, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article continues the series on research reported at the 1999 American Psychological Association (APA) Annual Convention, Boston, MA, August 20-24, 1999. The topic this week concerns the nexus of politics and the diagnosis of mental disorder. The construct of Internet addiction is used as an example.


Trends. Mental Disorder On Extreme Racism As Mental Disorder, Ibpp Editor Aug 1999

Trends. Mental Disorder On Extreme Racism As Mental Disorder, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The article discusses recent shootings in Los Angeles by an admitted racist who professes to have chosen victims based on their minority-race status.


The Other Illicit Drug Trafficking, Ibpp Editor Aug 1999

The Other Illicit Drug Trafficking, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article discusses the deleterious consequences for segments of a nation's population when dealing with the psychological effects of psychoactive substances.


Mental Health As Global Health: A Joint World Health Organization-European Commission Initiative, Ibpp Editor Apr 1999

Mental Health As Global Health: A Joint World Health Organization-European Commission Initiative, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes a current international mental health conference and a rationale for this conference.


Tb Or Not Tb: Disease And The Adaptiveness Of Political Borders, Ibpp Editor Apr 1999

Tb Or Not Tb: Disease And The Adaptiveness Of Political Borders, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes adaptive and nonadaptive aspects of political borders at the threshold of the 21st century.


Trends. Anti-Drug Public Policies: The Consequentialist-Deontological Distinction, Ibpp Editor Feb 1999

Trends. Anti-Drug Public Policies: The Consequentialist-Deontological Distinction, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses anti-drug public policies--and related substantive and procedural legalisms proscribing various psychoactive drug usages.


Heterosexuality, Condoms, And Political Destabilization In Africa, Ibpp Editor Feb 1999

Heterosexuality, Condoms, And Political Destabilization In Africa, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes psychosocial factors linked to condom use and the political implications of not maintaining this linkage.


The Politics Of Credibility: Stories And The Fate Of Storytellers In Contexts Of Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor Oct 1998

The Politics Of Credibility: Stories And The Fate Of Storytellers In Contexts Of Human Rights Violations, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article highlights the contrast between the expectations about accurate and truthful memory of political officials and the scientific psychology of memory and narrative in the assessment of alleged human rights victims.


Trends. Sex And The Totemic Presidency, Ibpp Editor Aug 1998

Trends. Sex And The Totemic Presidency, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the dynamics of the Lewinksky-Clinton relationship to the United States Presidency.


Mother-To-Child Transmission Of Aids: A Problem Of International Psychology, Ibpp Editor Jul 1998

Mother-To-Child Transmission Of Aids: A Problem Of International Psychology, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes international psychological phenomena that may be implicated in the identification, prevention, and management of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS.


An Addition To The History Of Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Between Z.V. Togan And S. Freud, Ibpp Editor Jun 1998

An Addition To The History Of Psychoanalysis: An Encounter Between Z.V. Togan And S. Freud, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article was submitted to IBPP by Dr. H.B. Paksoy concerning the historian Z. V. Togan. It is taken--with appropriate permission--from Z. V. Togan's Hatiralar (Memoirs) as translated by Dr. Paksoy and published in Paksoy's Central Asia Reader: The rediscovery of history. (NY/London: M.E. Sharpe, 1994). (Ed.). ISBN 1-56324-201-X (hardcover)/ISBN 1-56324-202-8 (paperback). Dr. Paksoy's translation was developed to preserve Togan's syntax. What follows is brief introductory material about Dr. Paksoy and Z.V. Togan, then the article entitled A Poem of Mother's and Freud, and finally a brief commentary by IBPP.


Foreign Policy As Psychotherapy: Iatrogenic Disorders Of The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor Jun 1998

Foreign Policy As Psychotherapy: Iatrogenic Disorders Of The People's Republic Of China, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article employs a model of foreign policy as psychotherapy to illustrate dilemmas in the political relationship between the United States (US) and the People's Republic of China (PRC).


Psychoanalysis And The Soviet Secret Police: Another Look At The Eitingon Controversy, Ibpp Editor Jun 1998

Psychoanalysis And The Soviet Secret Police: Another Look At The Eitingon Controversy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article provides a hypothetical damage assessment based on the assumption that Dr. Max Eitingon, a significant early member of the international psychoanalytic movement, was also a Soviet intelligence operative.


Political Psychology And Critiques Of The Scientific Method: Azt, Asia, Africa, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Political Psychology And Critiques Of The Scientific Method: Azt, Asia, Africa, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article critiques critiques of clinical outcome studies carried out in Third World countries of Asia and Africa for new methods of AZT treatment that might affect the transmission of HIV from pregnant women to their infants. Some of these studies have been supported by the United States' Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health and opposed by several articles in The New England Journal of Medicine.


The Politics Of Stress Management: The Newest Opiate Of The Masses, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

The Politics Of Stress Management: The Newest Opiate Of The Masses, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article posits a politically exploitive agenda underlying the theory, research, and practice of stress management.


Trends. Alternative Therapies And Resistance To Disconfirming Information In Security Bureaucracies: Perspective Of A Fourth Grader, Ibpp Editor Apr 1998

Trends. Alternative Therapies And Resistance To Disconfirming Information In Security Bureaucracies: Perspective Of A Fourth Grader, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

The author discusses the science experiment of a fourth-grader in relation to practitioners of alternative therapies and the health field.


Biological Warfare As Psychological Warfare, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Biological Warfare As Psychological Warfare, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the psychological benefits of an offensive biological warfare program