Citation

Appel KE. J. Abnorm. Soc. Psychol. 1945; 40(4): 355-362.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1945, American Psychological Association)

DOI

10.1037/h0059540

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Abstract

Nonadaptive political attitudes lead to war even as fixed ideas from childhood may lead to insanity. A parallel is drawn between chauvinistic nationalism and personal neurotic fixations. Isolationism is as unrealistic as the schizophrenic's withdrawal from society, and legal ideas of sovereignty are like the maniac's delusions of grandeur. No happy solution of world problems can come until these egocentric fixed political concepts are replaced by realistic, adaptive, sociocentric concepts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)