Interesting Times: An Encounter with the 20th Century 1924

312 Pages·5.376 MB·English

by  Mandler, George

Interesting Times
* ❖
An Encounter
With the 20th Century
1924-
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Interesting Times
An Encounter
With the 20th Century
1924-
George Mandler
ip Psychology Press
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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