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    To anyone with an open mind it is obvious that America consistently demonstrates a unique craving to be ‘different’ to other cultures. The lifestyle has long been noticeable for its extent and range of psychological ‘anomalies’ - the quite bewildering array of behavioural and cultural differences, inconsistencies and contradictions which simply cannot be rationalized by the onlooker. In so many ways, America just does not make sense!
    Of course, every social group comprises a vast network of interconnecting and interacting elements and its culturally-developed social norms are typical traits of a society’s progress, but it is a matter of common observation that departures from the norm in American behaviour patterns and social values are so pronounced that many onlookers regularly question the very sanity of the populace, while the traits and characteristics in question are all the more perplexing by the fact that foreign observers have been unable to pinpoint their cause. Unable, that is, until now...
    America had long fascinated amateur London psychoanalyst Bill Howard. He had puzzled long and hard about what was, to him, an inexplicable phenomenon. European psychologists traditionally regard America as simply brash and immature but to Howard it was clear that this could not be the whole picture. Driven by a restless curiosity coupled with an unquenchable thirst for the truth he sought an answer to the riddle. While others were prepared to adhere unquestioningly to its images Howard was not and, increasingly intrigued - even alarmed - by what he saw as a relentless deluge of dubious psychological writings, interpersonal angst and distorted sexual perspectives emanating from the other side of the Atlantic, he set about the mammoth task of single-handedly unravelling the American psyche.
    What had always struck him particularly forcibly was the undue degree of gratuitous deference accorded the female by American men. Above all, the question he kept asking himself was "Why, WHY, WHY are Americans always acting?"
    Gradually thinking the unthinkable, Howard began to ponder the possibility of an entire society trapped in denial. Increasingly driven by a profound reason to understand coupled with a highly focussed sense of purpose, his idle speculation grew into an obsessive desire to disentangle the complex strands of behaviour, to disengage fact from fiction and ruthlessly extract and separate fragments of truth from the spurious exhibitions presented to us all.
    What he finally uncovered turned his interest into a visceral concern. He saw the origins of America's unique sociological structures as interrelated through powerful psychological controlling mechanisms. The meticulous process of unravelling a highly complex and tangled web of psychoneurological symptoms through a combination of systematic, factorial research and common-sense observation revealed a picture of fundamental emotional instability which manifests itself in the inability of millions of Americans to acknowledge and express their feelings openly and without inhibition. In simple terms, Howard believes he has isolated and identified a culturally-indoctrinated ‘collective emotional dysfunctionality’, which afflicts, to a greater or lesser degree, everyone brought up there.
    With the long-term absence of an appropriate response by US writers, politicians, academics and the media, the public have had nowhere to turn. The whole situation has been exacerbated by a failure of US psychologists to even discuss, let alone analyse, its causal factors, while American Talk Shows are totally ratings - and therefore, sensationalism – orientated, and characterised more by episodes of emotional incoherence rather than of offering a genuine forum for an effective examination of social and interpersonal conflicts.
    So entrenched is the malaise within their collective psyche the American people are helpless to combat it and, greatly concerned about America’s destabilising relationships and their possible spread to his own and other cultures, Bill has written Letter To America, a brilliantly erudite perspective on the country which provides a broad understanding of American social processes through interpreting their everyday experience.
    An illuminating guide through what is an unhappy and twisted maze, Letter To America is not just a significant breakthrough in forcing America to address its endless gender conflicts honestly; it is also a true revelation about the human condition. The book primarily reflects Howard’s resolve to further the cause he believes in so passionately and help eradicate America’s interpersonal difficulties and maladjustments by: ‘ . . . systematically and constructively dispelling their enforced acting, role-exaggeration, defensiveness and other hidden motivations.’ America’s cultural images are also explored with a view to what they expose about American identity and experience and what they indicate in the broader cultural context within which each separate feature is found.
    Howard hopes to empower Americans of all ages to overcome their deep-rooted, generic denial and sexual repression by accepting the truth of their emotional and sexual discontent - which he terms ‘The American Neurosis’ - and which, he claims, can be cured through his unified - and unifying - remedial approach. His challenging yet inspiring analysis will, he claims, bring the requisite measure of absolute and uncompromising truthfulness to the American people which will enable them to finally confront their inner conflicts and anxieties with honesty and courage and find lasting freedom from their emotional and sexual anguish. Ultimately, all American adults will be able to gain greater therapeutic benefits through his specifically-devised treatment of the neurosis; a 10-stage 'Resensitization Therapy' Course.
    We are proud to be associated with Letter To America which is a remarkable and highly imaginative proposal and which, it is no exaggeration to say, holds enormous potential for millions. We believe it will ultimately prove to be the definitive explanation of America’s unique interpersonal relationship quagmire while its potential benefits for dramatically and permanently enhancing the personal happiness and fulfillment of Americans are simply staggering.
    With this much-needed book, we also believe Bill Howard’s radical approach will redraw the map of American social psychology. Be in no doubt, as incredible as it may sound, the foregoing is NOT just psychological fantasy; his exciting and penetrative examination takes interpersonal psychology into a new era. Moreover, as an invaluable source of inspiration and assistance to every American, this compelling volume could well bring America’s sex wars to an end by itself.