Psychology and Social Responsibility: Facing Global Challenges - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814779417 ISBN 13: 9780814779415

Publisher: NYU Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book brings together for the first time many if the leading writers and thinkers from the psychological and mental health fields. Contributes include Robert Jay Lifton, Joanna Macy, Roger Walsh and others.

About this title

About the Author:

Sylvia Staub, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Amherst Massachusetts. She is a co-founder of the Western Massachusetts chapter of Psychologists for Social Responsibility and is committed to exploring the connections between psychological theory and practice in the context of global society.

Review:

"Hamby's poems are tsunamis carrying you far out to sea and then back to shore giddy and glad to be alive. She roars around the parabola of the time-space continuum, leaping between the past, both ancient and within memory, and the present, then circles the globe all within a single high-octane couplet. Hamby strings words and worlds together with the gravity-defying momentum of a high-flying dancer or a whirling dervish, traveling to Italy, India, St. Louis, the Amazon, Sante Fe, and Hawaii in long zestful exhalations. She rumbas and stomps and shakes her finger in your face as she writes of war and sex, love and hunger, insomnia, drunkenness, the movies, family, the soul, art, and the devil. Her commentary is hilarious. The sudden moments of stillness found unexpectedly within the rush of her rants are radiant and spellbinding, and the clash between her velocity and her specificity creates a sizzling current of electricity that runs through every dashing, piquant, and diva-sung li

About this edition

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0814779417
• ISBN 13: 9780814779415
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 452
• Editor: Staub Sylvia, Green Paula