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A Psychoanalyst Looks at Politics: A Retrospective Tribute to Robert Waelder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

Morton A. Kaplan
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
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If Ambrose Bierce were writing his Devil's Dictionary today, he would probably define psychology as the science that predicts that Russian leaders will behave the same way during a missile crisis that a female sophomore does on a date. If tiiis is a caricature, it is only mildly so, as one would quickly learn by reading die testimony on psychology and international relations during die hearings in 1967 of die Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1968

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1 New York Times, December 9, 1967, italics added.

2 Ibid., italics added.