In therapy we trust : America's obsession with self-fulfillment / Eva S. Moskowitz.

Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2001], ©2001.

x, 342 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm

The therapeutic gospel -- Illness : a new cure, a new faith, 1850-1900 -- Poverty : reformers offer treatment, 1890-1930 -- Marriage : a science of personal relations, 1920-1940 -- War, the soldier's psyche, 1941-1945 -- Home : the unhappy housewife, 1945-1965 -- Social protest : liberating the psyche, 1960-1975 -- Feelings : expressing the self, 1970-1980 -- Personal problems and public debate.

Includes bibliographical references ([311]-326) and index.