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Includes excerpts from a talk given to the annual conference of the Israeli Society for Criminology in 1989; of articles written for the Jerusalem Post, and of a letter to the Dean of the School of Law at the Hebrew University to illustrate the limitations of intellectual approaches in confronting desperate political realities. (PAS)

THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATION OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY ARE EXAMINED. FOUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES ARE CONCEPTUALIZED IN TERMS OF THE EFFECTS ATTRIBUTED TO SOCIETAL FACTORS IN THE ETIOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY. THE POLITICAL REPERCUSSIONS OF THE ASOCIAL APPROACH, WHOSE MAIN CONSTITUENTS ARE THE MEDICAL, PSYCHODYNAMIC, AND COGNATIVE MODELS, WOULD APPEAR TO BE MARKEDLY CONSERVATIVE. AMBIGUOUS POLITICAL MESSAGES CAN BE DERIVED FROM THE MICROSOCIAL APPROACH, REPRESENTED HERE BY FAMILY THERAPY AND THEORIES OF LABELING. IT IS ARGUED THAT IF COMMUNITY PSHCHOLOTY IS TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE, A TRANSITION FROM ITS MACROSOCIAL PERSPECTIVE TO A MACRO-SOCIOPPOLITICAL WORLD VIEW IS TO OCCUR.