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The authors who joined the discussions from which this volume resulted were invited on the basis of their earlier work, which had shown an awareness of the consequences of modern psychiatry for the character, values, and future form of our society.
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Helmut Schoeck
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Men do well under a plan and its controls if the Gestalt to be accomplished makes sense, is not too distant, and offers rewards as well as challenges for different levels of skill. But this is quite different from a superimposed, infallible political philosophy which would urge on us an engineered society.
From the author: Today as ever we can point to gaps and disturbances in our social, cultural, and economic environment which we all might wish were not there. There will never be a society so perfect, and with all its members on the same high level
From the author: As the history of social theories shows, the pleaders and engineers of “social change” usually need a dichotomy, a “polarization” of social reality. Once it was proletariat and bourgeoisie, imperialist and colonial people, rural and
References
Van Nostrand, Princeton, 1962
