Preface & AcknowledgmentsContributorsIdentity & history: an overview/ Stein & Vidich1 Central PerspectivesA.IdentityThe problem of ego identity/ Erik H. Erikson Culture change & character structure/ Margaret MeadThe stranger/ Alfred SchuetzOn reason & freedom/ C. Wright MillsB.AnxietyCentrality of the problems of anxiety in our day/ Rollo May Psychiatric aspects of anxiety/ Frieda FrommReichmannThe social psychology of fear/ Kurt RiezlerRepression, anxiety & the self/ Leo SchneidermanAnxiety & psychotherapy/ Carl Whitaker & Th P. Malone2 Sources of identity & anxiety in mass lifeA.The terror & therapy of workThe meaning of work in bureaucratic society/ Joseph Bensman & Bernard RosenbergCareers, personality & adult socialization/ Howard S. Becker & Anselm L. StraussThe commercial artist/ Mason GriffSome unsolved problems of the scientific career/ Laurence S. KubieB.Political estrangementAnxiety & politics/ Franz NeumannThe politics of decivilization/ E.V. WalterPolitics & the English language/ Geo OrwellThe orgamerican fantasy/ Harold RosenbergC.The encircled mindWhat teaching does to teachers/ Willard WallerThe freedom to be academic/ Paul GoodmanNotes on the death of culture/ Wm EarleThe future of the humanities in general education/ I.A. RichardsD.2ndary sources of identity in mass society: Religion, race, sex & the familyThoughts on the future of the family/ Barrington MooreThe pornography of death/ Geoffrey GorerThe semiadequate male/ WhiteSlickpaper Christianity/ Dan WakefieldDecisions for Christ: Billy Graham in NY/ Kurt & Gladys E. Lang Identity, anxiety & the Jew/ Aaron AntonovskyCats, kicks & color/ Harold FinestoneE.The dissolution of identitiesCharacteristics of total institutions/ Erving GoffmanMedthods of forceful indoctrination/ Rbt J. LiftonThe dissolved identity in military life/ Vidich & SteinBrainwashing & menticide/ Joost A.M. Meerloo 3 The evolution of personal styles in mass society: Personal styles & the artsPoetry & tradition/ C.M. BowraAnother way of looking at the blackbird/ Irving HoweB. Personal styles & human psychologyIndividuality of thought/ John CohenThe ego & mystic selflessness/ Herbert FingarettePersonal styles & the study of history. History & our times/ Eric DardelThe axial age of human history/ Karl JaspersThe literature of primitive peoples/ Paul RadinD. Productivity & existenceProductivity & existence/ Martin BuberNotes