In the Lions Mouth is an ethnographic study of humanitarian assistance. Through intense narratives about displaced persons and his interaction with them, Lewis Apektar makes the case for humanitarian aid as finely honed and specific, rather than based on a priori categories and generalities. Moreover, contrary to usual practice, Apektar contends that mental health assistance is at least as important as food and shelter and essential in Kaliti, a camp for displaced persons near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, if the displaced are ever to break the chains of despondency that hold them down.
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Lewis Aptekar received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is currently Professor of Counselor Education at San Jose State University. Among his academic awards are two Fulbright scholarships (Colombia and Swaziland) and a Senior Fulbright Scholar award (Honduras). Aptekar has been Nehru Visiting Professor (University of Baroda, India); has held a Kellogg Foundation/Partners of the Americas Fellowship in International Development, a Rotarian International Ambassadorship (Zambia), and a scholarly residency at the Bellagio Rockefeller Foundation Study and Conference Center (Italy).
He is past President of the Society of Cross-cultural Research; and is on the editorial board of Child Abuse and Neglect, Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS (SAHARA), and the Journal of Psychology in Africa.
Aptekar has received research grants from the National Science Foundation to study street children in Kenya, and from the Natural Hazards and Research Applications Center to study post traumatic responses after natural disasters. His books include Street Children of Cali (Duke University Press, 1988) and Environmental Disasters in Global Perspective (G. K. Hall/Macmillan, 1994).
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