Arthur J. Bachrach

Arthur (Art) J. Bachrach (1926) is an American psychologist and administrator, who was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, and Director of the Environmental Stress Program and Chair of Psychophysiology at the Naval Medical Research Institute at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda

Biography

Art Bachrach served in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946, and then studied at University of Virginia, where he received his Ph.D. in 1952.

Bachrach kept working at at the Faculty in the University of Virginia Medical School, attaining the rank of Associate Professor in the Department of Neurology and Psychiatry. In 1962, he left the University of Virginia to accept the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. From 1969 tot 1987 he worked as Director of the Environmental Stress Program and Chair of Psychophysiology at the Naval Medical Research Institute at the Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. [http://auas-nogi.org/wst_page14.php?idx=5&file=images/artbach.bmp&&ID2=m6ghYk Arthur J. Bachrach] , NOGI fellowship gallery, retrieved 21 April 2008.]

He was Senior Editor and Co-editor on several publications of the International Undersea and Hyperbaric Physiology Symposia and a member of the Founding Editorial Board of the journal, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Research. After retiring Bachrach and his wife, Susan, moved to Taos, New Mexico where they had established a home and a bookshop named "Moby Dickens," which they had founded in 1984. Both are active in the bookshop, with Art specializing in rare and out-of-print books. The out-of-print division is affectionately known as "Moldy Dickens." Bachrach is an active member of the D. H. Lawrence Society of North America.

Arthur J. Bachrach was awarded the U. S. Navy's Civilian Meritorious Achievement Medal in 1987, and the NOGI fellowship in 2007.

Work

Undersea research

At the Arizona State University Bachrach participated as a researcher on the Navy's deep diving undersea program SeaLab III. When he became drector of the Naval Medical Center he supervised and developed underwater and extreme environment research (cold, heat) projects at the Institute as well as collaborative projects in Sweden, Canada, Japan, France and the United Kingdom. He was a consultant to the Navy's marine mammal program and a member of the Navy's Shark Research Panel.

D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico

D. H. Lawrence had spent three six month visits to Taos between 1922 and 1925. After researching these, Art Bachrach, relates many tales of Lawrence’s time there. He has come to know people who freely recalled the Lawrences. They shared information about the circle of artists and friends who surrounded the Lawrences and their lifestyles. Bachrach provides information on Lawrence's writings and the influence living in the mountains of New Mexico had upon him.

Publications

Bachrach has authored or edited fourteen books, and published over 180 articles in scientific journals and chapters in textbooks and symposia. Books, a selection:
* 1954, "Outline of abnormal psychology", edited by Gardner Murphy and Arthur J. Bachrach.
* 1961, "Perception (in experimental foundations of clinical psychology". with Israel Goldiamond.
* 1962, "Experimental foundations of clinical psychology".
* 1962, "Psychological research; an introduction".
* 1987, "Stress and performance in diving"
* 2006, "D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico : "the time is different there"

References

External links

* [http://www.mobydickens.com/selbiblio.html Moby Dickens Bookshop] in Taos.
* [http://www.revver.com/video/159054/art-bachrach/ Art Bachrach] video.