Interesting Times: An Encounter with the 20th Century 1924 PDF
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Interesting Times * ❖ An Encounter With the 20th Century 1924- Books by George Mandler The Language of Psychology (with William Kessen) Thinking: From Association to Gestalt (with Jean Matter Mandler) Mind and Emotion Mind and Body: Psychology of Emotion and Stress Cognitive Psychology: An Essay in Cognitive Science Human Nature Explored Interesting Times An Encounter With the 20th Century 1924- George Mandler ip Psychology Press A Taylor & Francis Croup NEW YORK AND HOVE First published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc., Publishers This edition published 2013 by Psychology Press Psychology Press Psychology Press Taylor & Francis Group Taylor & Francis Group 711 Third Avenue. 27 Church Road New York. NY 10017 Hove Hast Sussex BN3 2FA Psychology Press is tin imprint of the Taylor & brands Group, an informa business First issued in paperback 2013 Copyright © 2002 by George Mandler. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microform, retrieval system, or any other means, without prior written permission of the author and the publisher. Cover design by Kathryn Houghtaling Lacey Library of Congress Cataloging -in-Publication Data Mandler, George. Interesting times : an encounter with the 20th century (1924- ) / George Mandler. p. cm. ISBN 0-8058-4076-1 (alk. paper) 1. Mandler, George, Psychologists —United States—Biography. I. Title. BF109 .M25 2001 150 .92—dc21 2001031553 [B] CIP ISBN 978-0-805-84076-6 (Hbk) ISBN 978-0-415-65522-4 (Pbk) For Benjamin and Hannah Contents Preface Acknowledgments Growing Up in Vienna: 1924-1938 Growing Up 1 Family History - Relatives and the New Dispersal School 21 Religion 25 Politics 27 Anti-Semitism 28 Ends and Beginnings: 1938-1940 Anschluss 3 7 Turning Left 41 The Nazis Take Over 43 Formative Years 45 Leaving 47 Bournemouth 48 Holocaust 60 viii -> CONTENTS Emigre Life in New York: 1940-1943 71 Life and School 71 Adolescent Writing and Reading 78 Patriotisms and Accents 80 Cowboys and Indians 81 My War: 1943-1946 88 Getting Drafted and Basic Training 88 Military Intelligence Need not be an Oxymoron 92 Camp Ritchie—Military Intelligence Training 93 Military Intelligence Up Front 99 How it all Worked 102 Post-War in Germany 105 Anneliese—and Leaving 113 A Case History 118 The Veteran: 1946-1949 128 Basel and Goodbye to New York 131 Shifting Gears 140 Graduate School and Some Unfortunate Stumbles: 143 1949-1953 The"Spy" 151 Moving On 156 The Trip Through Harvard: 1953-1960 158 People 159 Marriages—Bad and Good 163 Working for the CIA and Changing History 166 8 Toronto—A Not So Foreign Country: 1960-1965 173 UCSD Knocks on the Door 181 CONTENTS <* ix 9 California Beginnings: 1965-1970 185 Academic Governance 185 Building a Department 189 The Troubles 199 Getting into Print 203 UCSD Grows Up 206 10 Settling Down and Retirement: 1970- 216 Psychology Follies 219 University Follies 222 And Everything Else 231 The Festschrift 236 The Book Collector 238 London 240 Work and Play 243 Health 247 1997-98: Years of Death 248 Austria Again 249 11 My Psychology—and How I Got There 251 Getting There 251 Starting Psychology 252 The "Revolution" 256 Memory and Organization 258 Emotion and Stress 259 Consciousness 261 Psychology and Philosophy 263 Postmodernism 264 Neuroscience 266 The Joys of Retirement 267 Friends and Students 268
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