The United States' Search for Security

A Psychotherapist's Viewpoint

Bibliographic Data

ID3918192
AuthorsFrancoise Hall (corresponding author)
Year1983
Volume20
Issue4
Pages299-309
Publication date1983-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Peace Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-3433 • E-ISSN: 1460-3578
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/002234338302000402
OpenAlexW2090875340
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited22

The author endeavors to understand the United States' experienced need for more military defense in the same way as a psychotherapist would attempt to understand the actions of a patent already armed to 'overkill' capacity and yet intent on pursuing ever more and more efficient violent means of defense - despite the attendant increasing risk of self-maiming and even perhaps self-destruction. Analysis points to a rigid focus by the United States on the Soviet Union with an apparent lack of appreciation for the implications to itself of the limits of the earth's carrying capacity. The author suggests that this latter threat may play a major role in producing the country's deep feelings of victimization. The Government may lack a firm institutional base from which to have a broad perspective of all global trends and thus set the stage for a displacement of focus from ecological forces - little known, abstract, difficult to under stand - to the U.S.S.R., which is a more easily-defined, concrete, and hopefully more manageable target

Computer security · Feeling · Focus (optics) · Government (linguistics) · Perspective (graphical) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Soviet union · Computer Science · Environmental, Ecological, and Cultural Studies · Law · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Psychology · Social Psychology · Whitehead's Philosophy and Applications

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