Marie Jahoda

The evasion of propaganda; how prejudiced people respond to anti-prejudice propaganda.

The Evasion of Propaganda: How Prejudiced People Respond to Anti-Prejudice Propaganda Eunice Cooper & Marie Jahoda To cite this article: Eunice Cooper & Marie Jahoda (1947) The Evasion of Propaganda: How Prejudiced People Respond to Anti-Prejudice Propaganda, The Journal of Psychology, 23:1, 15-25, DOI: 10.1080/00223980.1947.9917316 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00223980.1947.9917316

The Meaning of Psychological Health

results will accrue to all members of the family. There were frequent conferences between both caseworkers. Discussion about Mr. Gs vocational plans was timed to coincide with discussion about Mrs. Gs work. Support for Mr. Gs change of jobs had to be balanced to meet Mrs. Gs awareness of what her panic did to Mr. G. Bessie was assessed as a healthy little girl, who needed to have pressures on her reduced by both parents. Treatment techniques and quality of relationship were different for each client, as a result of the continuing psychosocial diagnosis and evaluation. Although there was recognition of the unhealthy aspects of Mrs. Gs personality, her wish to change and her ego integrative capacity were utilized actively and constructively. Identification with a mature woman caseworker was significant in helping her to give up some of her masculine strivings. Similar treatment considerations were involved in work with Mr. G. Capacity for change in each was continuously re-evaluated through testing the outcome of changes in the reality situation. Regardless of whether the predominant techniques employed are those of ego support or clarification, stabilized or increased ego integrative capacity for improved social functioning is the major treatment aim in any situation. The G case also illustrates the fact that, while family-centered casework involves consideration of the total family unit, specific treatment is focused on those factors in the situation that affect personal and 349

14. Postscript on social change

Abstract The major weakness of the world dynamics models is that they illustrate the pessimistic consequences of exponential growth in a finite world without taking account of politics, social structure, and human needs and wants. The introduction of an extra variable—man—into thinking about the world and its future may entirely change the structure of the debate which these models have so far limited to physical properties.

Debates: A Time to Speak or a Time to Keep Silent?

Abstract To be a social psychologist reflecting on the state of ones field work at the time of mans first landing on the moon is a sobering experience. To be sure, there has been a phenomenal development in quantity of research and of sheer number of research workers in the field all over the world since the end of the war. This is encouraging, notwithstanding the fact that most members of the profession are ready to complain that in the flood of publications in the technical journals there is much that does not seem worth the paper on which it is printed; for it seems that in all human endeavours, whether art, music, natural science or social science, the very quantity of practitioners is a condition for the achievement of excellence by a few. But though necessary, it is not a sufficient condition. At this moment of rapid development in the social sciences their directions appear confused and imbalances abound; many of the practitioners in the field are uneasy.

Individual and Group

‘Individual’ and ‘group’ are terms which most people apply without difficulty to the affairs of everyday life; participants in this Congress have, in addition, professional competence in their usage. Given so much good collective common sense and specialist knowledge, the only excuse for a non-expert in group work, like myself, to talk about these terms is a subversive intention: to confuse an apparently crystal-clear issue on the assumption that in matters of thought, agreement and harmony are not necessarily the best base for further development.

Technicalities and fantasy about men and women

Abstract Two ideas are presented for helping people in general, and women in particular, enjoy their greater freedom of choice in the future. Housing facilities could be designed to contain a number of nuclear families ; this would help allay the difficulties—psychological and economic—of the two-generation family, while preserving its good features. A fantasy of a three-generation family, with two people of the same sex and one of the opposite sex, serves to highlight some of the basic values which should be accepted or deliberately abandoned in the search for new styles of life.

Thinking Machines — The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence by Vernon Pratt (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987), pp. xii + 253, £19.50, ISBN 0-631-14953-8

(1989). Thinking Machines — The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence by Vernon Pratt (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1987), pp. xii + 253, £19.50, ISBN 0-631-14953-8. Prometheus: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 185-187.