Psychology and Economy III

Psychology and Economy III will focus on how the continued economic deterioration (credit crisis, rising food and energy prices, falling home prices, looming recession, fiscal crises of states and cities, etc.) is interacting with the psychological stresses and strains of US life today (isolation, loneliness, anxiety, depression, violence, child neglect, etc.). One goal of our discussion will be to explore whether a potentially explosive convergence of economic and psychological crises is now under way. A second goal will be to explore the likely evolution of these twin crises. A third goal will be to analyze the possibilities and strategies of left political mobilization around these twin assaults on the US quality of life.

Dr. Harriet Fraad is a practicing psychotherapist-hypnotherapist in Manhattan.
Richard Wolff is a Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
They are co-authors (with S. Resnick) of the book Bringing It All Back Home: Power, Gender, and Class in the Modern Household.