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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


Philosophy And The Propaganda Of Mental Health Care: What "Real" Doctors Do, Ibpp Editor Mar 1998

Philosophy And The Propaganda Of Mental Health Care: What "Real" Doctors Do, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes common propaganda efforts effected by representatives of mental health professional organizations.