Robert N. Rapoport

1 November 1924 – 4 November 1996

Robert Norman Rapoport was born in Brockton, Massachusetts. He received an MA degree in Social Anthropology from the University of Chicago, and a PhD at the Department of Social Relations of Harvard University for his thesis on the changing values of Navaho Indians. He studied mental illness in a Canadian county, then held several positions, from assistant to Professor. In 1954 he became Research Director in the Social Rehabilitation Unit of Belmont Hospital, in Surrey, England. He worked under the psychiatrist Maxwell Jones, who was developing the concept of a therapeutic community. This expe

• Three dilemmas in action research
• Changing Navaho religious values
• Children, Youth, and Families
• Community as Doctor
• Community as doctor
• Dual-career families
• Families As Educators for Global Citizenship
• Families, children, and the quest for a global ethic
• Fathers, mothers and others
• Mid-Career Development
• New interventions for children and youth
• Dual-Career Families