Programmed for Failure

About the Book

Programmed for Failure is an authoritative study of the ways that politics and pieties have failed the most vulnerable and most volatile members of society: the young. By declaring war on drugs, while avoiding a candid confrontation with the natural pressures and confusions of adolescence, and tolerating public schools that do not teach basic literacy, governments waste millions on what can’t be legislated, and program our children for failure.

About the Author

Dr. Herbert Wieder is a Life Member of The American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychoanalytic Association, The Child Analysis Association, and the International Psychoanalytic Association. He was on the faculty of NYU, Downstate, and Albert Einstein Medical Schools, and until recently was active in the Ministry of Health in Jamaica, West Indies.