Constructing the self, constructing America : a cultural history of psychotherapy / Philip Cushman.

  • Cushman, Philip.
Date:
[1995], ©1995
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Publication/Creation

Boston, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., [1995], ©1995.

Physical description

xiii, 430 pages ; 25 cm

Contributors

Notes

Copy 1 Supplier/Donor: Coutts

Contents

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographic references (p. [389]-414) and index

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    History of Medicine
    PP.RV.6
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