The Return: A Book for Frances about Life and Death
             Preface
            Back Cover
      You're in Charge: A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist
            Introduction: The Art of Self Observation
             On Dreaming
            Foreign Editions
   Since the New Deal: An Annotated Chronology of the Events That Have Changed the United States
             The C.I.A. (excerpt)
             Origins of the Cold War (excerpt)
             Some Quotations that Demonstrate the Underlying Philosophy Since the New Deal

 
      Afghanistan, "Terrorism," and Blowback   About Anthrax
     Some Thoughts on 9-11-2001

About the Author

Jan Rainwater describes herself as "a lifelong anti-fascist and pro-humanist who believes that governments and people should tell the truth". She did graduate work in American History at The Johns Hopkins University under C. Vann Woodward, worked in the presidential campaigns of Henry Wallace, Adlai Stevenson and the Democratic opponents of Ronald Reagan and George Bush, was a Peace Corps psychologist in Colombia, and visited Nicaragua, other Central American countries and Cuba with different delegations including Witness for Peace and Food First.

She is retired as a clinical psychologist in private practice (Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, 1964) and has led over 500 workshops on five continents, most recently training psychotherapists in Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and other Eastern European countries in gestalt therapy and psychosythesis. Her 1979 self-help book, You're in Charge: A Guide to Becoming Your Own Therapist, has been translated into eleven languages.

She was a writer long before she became a psychologist. Her biggest project, still in progress, has the working title: From the New Deal to the Raw Deal: An Annotated Chronology of the Events that Have Changed the United States.

A longtime political activist (civil rights, Vietnam War, anti-nukes, Nicaragua, etc.) she is currently most outraged by the invasion of Iraq, the continuing war crimes there, the stolen election of 2004, and the policies that the White House is foisting onto the American public— tax cuts for the rich, the Patriot Act, and so on.

(Past prominent outrages included the bombing of Afghanistan, the Supreme Court-Republican theft of the 2000 presidential election, the illegal US-NATO war against Yugoslavia, the covert actions of the CIA, the contra-cocaine connection that was re-exposed by Gary Webb, the Iran-Contra affair, the Reagan attempt to roll back the New Deal,---- and so on.)

She has been a board member of numerous political organizations and was a minor researcher for Barbara Trent's documentary film, Coverup: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair. And a Friend, Mother, Grandmother, Gardener and Householder.

In an earlier phase of life as a faculty wife and cub scout den mother she did photojournalism and wrote children's books.
She is widowed and lives in Pacific Palisades with her wonderful dog, TomPaine.

For her connection with Yugoslavia, see the preface to the sixth edition of the Serbian translation of You're in Charge.

© Janette Rainwater 1997-2002

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