Constructing the Self, Constructing America A Cultural History of Psychotherapy

Name: Constructing the Self, Constructing America A Cultural History of Psychotherapy
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ISBN: 9780201441925

ISBN-10: 0201441926

ISBN-13: 9780201441925

Edition: 1996

Authors: Philip Cushman

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"In this ground-breaking cultural history of psychotherapy, historian and psychologist Philip Cushman shows how the development of modern psychotherapy is inextricably intertwined with that of the Unit"

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 10/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Psychotherapy, the Impossible Bridge



Selves, Illnesses, Healers, Technologies



the Self in America



Healing Through Self-Domination: Capitalism, the Asylum, the Untamed Female Body, and Freud



Healing Through Self-Liberation: Mesmerism and the Enchanted American Interior of the Nineteenth Century



Strange Bedfellows: The Americanization of Psychoanalysis in the Early Twentieth Century



the Road Not Taken: Harry Stack Sullivan, Melanie Klein, and the Location of the Social



Self-Liberation Through Consumerism: Post-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self Psychology, and the Empty Self


Conclusion



Psychotherapy as Moral Discourse: A Hermeneutic Alternative


Appendix the Self in Western Society


Notes


Index