Homo Scientius et Homo Professionalis-Sempervirens? [1968]

To a Sierra Club Member, the Report of the Chicago Conference, Professional Preparation of Clinical Psychologists (Hoch, Ross, & Winder, 1966), unavoidably brings to mind the current battle over the California redwoods. Despite the clearly disparate motivations behind these two enterprises, the analogy remains apt because the pleasure principle is closely involved both in conservation and in clinical psychology training. Short-range needs for profit and local livelihood, and for psychological assistance, vie with the longer range needs for re-creation, and for the full use of the personal resources of both the helped and the helpers.