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Constructing the self, constructing America : a cultural history of psychotherapy
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- Creator
- Philip Cushman
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., [1995]
- ©1995
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780201626438, 0201626438
- OCLC
- ocm30976460
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-414) and index.
- Psychotherapy, the impossible bridge -- Selves, illnesses, healers, technologies -- The self in America -- Healing through self-domination -- Healing through self-liberation -- Strange bedfellows -- The road not taken -- Self-liberation through consumerism -- Psychotherapy as moral discourse -- The politics of the self
Subjects
- Psychotherapy -- Social aspects -- United States.
- Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
- Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
- Individualism -- United States.
- Psychotherapy -- history -- United States.
Medical Subject Heading
- Sociology.
Medical Subject Heading
- United States -- Civilization -- Psychological aspects.