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Questionnaire returns for 225 homosexual and 233 heterosexual adult women revealed 115 cases of rape or attempted rape. Data from 78 follow-up questionnaires are summarized. About the same proportion of lesbians and heterosexuals, age 16 or over, were the object of rape. The lesbians tended to reject all men as sexual partners or companions, while the heterosexuals tended to blame themselves for not being careful. Some of the heterosexual women, age 16 to 18, interpreted the rape as a compliment to their sexual attractiveness. Girls under 16 whose assailant was a stranger are, as adults, as frequently homosexual as heterosexual. Sixteen of the 17 girls, age 4 to 16, molested or seduced (6 for a long time) by a relative or close family friend are lesbians as adults. The subjects' attitudes about the incient were highly determined by parental reactions. Inferences are drawn about the rapists' attitudes toward women.

(1943). World Crisis and the Changing Policies of Peace and Patriotic Societies. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 133-152.

This article is intended to serve as an introduction to the concept of the marriage contract, which has proved to be a useful clinical tool for clarification and treatment of troubled marriages. Transactional as well as intrapsychic factors are important aspects of marital dynamics. The contract concept employs both these behavioral parameters and facilitates therapeutic intervention at both levels.

(1939). Emotional Stability and Political Opinions as Related to Age and Income. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 577-590.

(1942). The Psychological Bases for Permanent Peace. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 297-334.

MARRIAGES, rather than being made in heaven, appear to have their roots in more earthy dynamisms—in complex interactions of congruent, reciprocal, and correlative needs, in sociopsychologic attractions and barriers. The marital state is the most complex and possibly the least understood of all human relationships. The expectation that two people will be able to maintain a close and loving relationship through the varied stages of each individual's development, through the internal stresses produced by emotional and physical changes, through the external pressures of economic and other forces, is the most difficult and important demand that man has made of himself. The intimate nature of the marital relationship presupposes that changes in one partner will bring about changes in the other. What then is the effect on the marital state when one or both partners undergo psychoanalytic treatment? What is the probability that psychoanalysis with its focus