About the Contributors

ROBERT COLES, M.D.

A Research Psychiatrist at the Harvard University Health Services, Dr. Coles has worked for nearly fifteen years with black and white children in the South, in Appalachia, and in the urban North. He has also spent many years working with young students involved in the Civil Rights Movement in the South and in Appalachia, and with college students who have chosen to work in the ghettos of the North. His more than 350 articles and books deal with some of the social problems the United States has faced in recent years.

HARRY GIRVETZ, PH.D.

Dr. Girvetz is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, one of the campuses most involved in the turbulence of the late 1960's. Author of The Evolution of Liberalism, co-author of Science, Folklore, and Philosophy, editor of and contributor to three widely used anthologies, Contemporary Moral Issues, Democracy and Elitism, and Literature and the Arts: The Moral Issues, he is presently completing a work in moral philosophy to be entitled Escape from Skepticism. During his many years as a teacher he has been in contact with thousands of students individually and in groups of varying size up to 700.

L. TAKEO DOI, M.D.

Dr. Doi is Secretary of the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society and Professor in the Department of Mental Health, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo. He has written many articles and books, in both English and Japanese, in which the Japanese concept of amae appears,

which he defines as “the longing for and expectation of dependence or oneness with others or sometimes simply indulgence,” and as being derived from a verb which means “to depend and presume upon another's love.”

CARLOS NUÑEZ-SAAVEDRA, M.D.

Dr. Nuñez-Saavedra is President and Professor of the Chilean Psychoanalytic Association, Professor of Psychiatry, Chile University School of Medicine, and past Ordinary Professor of Psychiatry, Schools of Medicine and Social Service at the