PEP | Article - Prevention of Nuclear War: Psychiatric Aspects of the Prevention of Nuclear War. Formulated by the Committee on Social Issues. Report No. 57. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry: 104 East 25th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010, 1064 pages 223-318.

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Abstract

This extremely valuable document is the result of a several-year study by the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry—active since 1946—of which Judd Armor is chairman.

The study goes out from Einstein's statement that “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking, if mankind is to survive.’

Granting that conflict is an inevitable form of human existence, it argues that conflict “is not synonymous with war, or even with violence.” Moreover, nuclear push-button weapons allow lesser outlet for aggressive feelings than earlier techniques. Nuclear war entails impersonal motion and dehumanized thinking and feeling. These tend to protect men “not only from guilt and anxiety, but also from the need to take

PEP | Article - Prevention of Nuclear War: Psychiatric Aspects of the Prevention of Nuclear War. Formulated by the Committee on Social Issues. Report No. 57. Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry: 104 East 25th Street, New York, N.Y. 10010, 1064 pages 223-318. - Slochower, Harry