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Author Caplan, Eric, 1962-

Title Mind games : American culture and the birth of psychotherapy / Eric Caplan.

Publication Info. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [1998]
©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 242 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medicine and society ; 9
Medicine and society ; 9.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-235) and index.
Contents Trains, Brains, and Sprains: Railway Spine and the Origins of Psychoneuroses -- Psychosomatic Backlash -- From the Spine to the Brain: A Functional Reassessment -- Railway Surgeons Respond -- Suggestion and American Railway Surgery -- Avoiding Psychotherapy: Neurasthenia and the Limits of Somatic Therapy -- Significance of Patient-Centered Therapeutics -- Role of Rapport -- Neurasthenic Therapy: Soma not Psyche -- Inventing Psychotherapy: The American Mind Cure Movement, 1830-1900 -- Mental Healing in America: Controversies and Consensus -- Early Disciples: Warren Felt Evans and Mary Baker Eddy -- Midwestern Mind Cure -- New Thought and the Challenge to Christian Science -- Physicians Respond -- Flirting with Psychotherapy: Somatic Intransigence and the "Advanced Guard" -- Demedicalizing the Mind -- Maintenance of Psychological Medicine -- Somatic Intransigence -- Advanced Guard and the Challenge to Somaticism -- Enduring Somaticism: 1906-1908 -- Embracing Psychotherapy: The Emmanuel Movement and the American Medical Profession -- Program Begins -- Movement Spreads -- In the Public Eye -- Medical Opposition: The Quest for Control -- New York and Boston Controversies -- Clerical Opposition -- Psychological Opposition -- Final Defense.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Psychotherapy -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Psychotherapy.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Psychotherapy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Psychotherapy -- Social aspects.
Mental healing -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Mental healing.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Manners and customs.
Psychotherapy -- history.
Culture.
History, 19th Century.
Mental Healing -- history.
Psychology, Social -- history.
United States.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Caplan, Eric, 1962- Mind games. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, ©1998 0520211693 (DLC) 98016999 (OCoLC)38885873
ISBN 9780520927025 (electronic book)
0520927028 (electronic book)
0585068739 (electronic book)
9780585068732 (electronic book)
9780520211698 (alkaline paper)
0520211693 (alkaline paper)
0520211693