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Psychiatry and applied anthropology in psychological warfare against Japan

Psychiatry and applied anthropology in psychological warfare against Japan PSYCHIATRY AND APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST JAPAN BY ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND MORRIS EDWARD OPLER * URING THE WAR, the policy makers of our but during the first three years of the war it was D seriously entertained as a grave and threatening government were faced with a number of possibility. interesting and important questions that hinged otx the nature of the Japanese as members of a Policy makers in our government needed to sodety that carries aparticular culture and as hu- know whether the morale of all the Japanese was uniformly high or whether it had weak man beings with individual needs and motives. One set of such questions concerned the high spots that could deteriorate and spread their degenerative influence. Was the morale struc- morale of the Japanese fighting forces. It ture really entirely solid, or was the Japanese seemed to many officials and to the general public that this morale was a solid and impreg- soldier, in spite of his remarkable performance; caught in the ambivalence characteristic of other nable wall of uniform strength with every enemy soldiers: the conflict between the will to resist ~oldier an ideal fighting machine--fearless, s obeying instantly without http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The American Journal of Psychoanalysis Springer Journals

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
1946 The Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
ISSN
0002-9548
eISSN
1573-6741
DOI
10.1007/BF01873950
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Abstract

PSYCHIATRY AND APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY IN PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST JAPAN BY ALEXANDER H. LEIGHTON AND MORRIS EDWARD OPLER * URING THE WAR, the policy makers of our but during the first three years of the war it was D seriously entertained as a grave and threatening government were faced with a number of possibility. interesting and important questions that hinged otx the nature of the Japanese as members of a Policy makers in our government needed to sodety that carries aparticular culture and as hu- know whether the morale of all the Japanese was uniformly high or whether it had weak man beings with individual needs and motives. One set of such questions concerned the high spots that could deteriorate and spread their degenerative influence. Was the morale struc- morale of the Japanese fighting forces. It ture really entirely solid, or was the Japanese seemed to many officials and to the general public that this morale was a solid and impreg- soldier, in spite of his remarkable performance; caught in the ambivalence characteristic of other nable wall of uniform strength with every enemy soldiers: the conflict between the will to resist ~oldier an ideal fighting machine--fearless, s obeying instantly without

Journal

The American Journal of PsychoanalysisSpringer Journals

Published: Dec 1, 1946

Keywords: Clinical Psychology; Psychotherapy; Psychoanalysis

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