Politics and psychology : contemporary psychodynamic perspectives

Shifting images in politics -- Some reflections on political choice in America -- National group governance in presidential elections -- Collective suicide at Jonestown -- Spelling and seduction of Michael Dukakis -- Public presidency : a psychological inquiry into John F. Kennedy -- George Bush -- Jimmy Carterand the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan -- Presidents Carter and Sadat -- Gentlerevolution : the childhood origins of Soviet and East European democratic movements -- Growing up in Nazi Germany -- Bridging East and West -- Common security -- Growing up in a nuclear age -- Relevance of the death drive to the nuclear age -- Further clinical considerations of the psychological fallout of the nuclearthreat -- Altruism : antidote to war and human antagonism.