Obituary: Philip Brickman (1943-1982).

Presents an obituary for Philip Brickman, whose distinguished career in social psychology focused on issues such as justice, happiness, pain, inequality, helping, and coping. From 1968 to 1978, he was a faculty member in the psychology department at Northwestern University. In 1979, he went to the University of Michigan, where he joined the faculty as professor in the Psychology Department and director of the Research Center for Group Dynamics at the Institute for Social Research. By the time of his death, Brickman had published over 50 articles and book chapters, many of them very well known and widely cited. In addition to his published work, he enriched the field through his participation in several professional societies. He had served on the Council of APA's Division 9 (The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues; SPSSI) and on the Executive Committee of Division 8 (Personality and Social Psychology), where he provided valuable leadership during the crisis in research funding that occurred during the early years of the first Reagan administration. Brickman passed away in 1982. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)