From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
Subject: Perry London: 1931-1992
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories,  Columbus, Ohio
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 05:45:04 GMT


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 From: harnad@clarity.Princeton.EDU (Stevan Harnad)
 Newsgroups: sci.psychology.digest
 Subject: PSYCOLOQUY: Perry London 1931-1992
 Message-ID: <9208122013.AA09477@clarity.Princeton.EDU>
 Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:17:33 -0400

It is my sad duty to announce the death of my Co-Editor, Perry London.
The following obituary was written by Associate Editor Cary Cherniss.

						   -- Stevan Harnad
______________________________________________________________________
              ---  Perry London: 1931-1992  ---

Perry London, Co-Editor of PSYCOLOQUY, died of cancer on June 19, 1992,
at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, NJ.
He was 61 years old.

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Perry majored in classics at Yeshiva
University. He received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology at Columbia
University in 1956.

After serving in the army, Perry became an assistant professor of
psychology at the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1959. In 1962-63,
he spent a year at Stanford University and was then appointed associate
professor of psychology at the University of Southern California. In
1967 he was promoted to full professor and remained at USC as Professor
of Psychiatry, Psychology, and the Behavioral Sciences until 1984.
During this period Perry also spent long periods of time in residence
in Israel and taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv
University. In 1984 he moved to Harvard University where he taught and
sometimes directed the Counseling and Consulting Psychology program in
the Graduate School of Education.

Perry became Dean of the Graduate School of Applied and Professional
Psychology at Rutgers University in 1989; he was serving in that
position at the time of his death.

Perry's research interests included the nature and development of
personal and social identity, the psychological determinants of
voluntary behavior, and the technology of helping interventions,
especially in the problem behavior of children and youth. Perry was
also noted for his studies of altruism in Christians who risked their
lives to save Jews from the Nazis.

Author of numerous publications, Perry's best known books were "The
Modes and Morals of Psychotherapy" (1964, 1986), "Behavioral Control"
(1969, 1977), and "Beginning Psychology" (1975, 1978). He was the chief
consultant to the Psychosocial Treatments Research Branch of NIMH;
he also consulted to the Israeli Air Force and the Management Education
Center of Bell Laboratories.

Perry earned many honors during his career. He was a career science
development fellow of the National Institute of Mental Health as well
as a Fellow of the New York Academy of Science and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.

Perry is survived by his wife, Beverly, seven children, and eight
grandchildren.
                                                        Cary Cherniss
               Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology
                                                   Rutgers University