The psychoanalyst approaches this book eager to learn what an on-the-spot psychoanalyst at Columbia University in 1968 can contribute to a fuller understanding of the radical behavior of the students in that uprising. As Liebert so aptly puts it, his study 'is an example of what has come to be known as "firehouse research"—that is, what takes place when a social crisis erupts unexpectedly and the researcher races out and studies it as best he can, with no prior plan for the project'. His principal sources of data in this lone effort were 'direct interviews with students, term papers by students