Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
xv, 412 pages ; 21 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-398) and index. |
Contents |
The problem of psychological health, American culture and psychology in the 1950s -- Common ground, the historical roots of humanistic psychology -- Higher, better leaders, the founders and founding of humanistic psychology -- Self, being, and growth people, forging a psychology of liberation, health, and growth -- Eupsychian visions, idealism, behaviorism, and the flight from the university -- Resacralizing science, humanistic science and the Old Saybrook Conference -- Spreading the news, humanistic psychology in education, business, and religion -- From the Ivory Tower to the Golden Coast, esalen and psychedelics -- The sledgehammer approach to human growth, encounter groups -- Such beauty and such ugliness, counterculture and black-white encounter -- The postmortem years, Maslow's legacy and the close of the 1960s -- A delicious look inward, consciousness raising and women's liberation -- Intellectual slippage, criticism and the theory conference of 1975 -- What remains, the lasting impact of humanistic psychology. |
Summary |
From sensitivity training to American anxieties about wellness, identity, and purpose, a cultural historian presents a narrative of the psychology movement that reshaped American culture, profiling an array of thought leaders. |
Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
Subject |
Humanistic psychology.
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Humanistic psychology. |
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
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United States. |
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Civilization. |
Chronological Term |
1945- |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1945-1970.
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Manners and customs. |
Chronological Term |
1945-1970 |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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Chronological Term |
1971- |
ISBN |
9780061834769 paperback |
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0061834769 paperback |
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