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060 10 $aWM 11 AA1 C9c 1995
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100 1 $aCushman, Philip.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94802528
245 10 $aConstructing the self, constructing America :$ba cultural history of psychotherapy /$cPhilip Cushman.
260 $aBoston, Mass. :$bAddison-Wesley Pub.,$c[1995], ©1995.
300 $axiii, 430 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [389]-414) and index.
505 0 $aCh. 1. Psychotherapy, the Impossible Bridge -- Ch. 2. Selves, Illnesses, Healers, Technologies -- Ch. 3. The Self in America -- Ch. 4. Healing through Self-Domination: Capitalism, the Asylum, the Untamed Female Body, and Freud -- Ch. 5. Healing through Self-Liberation: Mesmerism and the Enchanted American Interior of the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 6. Strange Bedfellows: The Americanization of Psychoanalysis in the Early Twentieth Century -- Ch. 7. The Road Not Taken: Harry Stack Sullivan, Melanie Klein, and the Location of the Social -- Ch. 8. Self-Liberation through Consumerism: Post-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self-Psychology, and the Empty Self -- Ch. 9. Psychotherapy as Moral Discourse: A Hermeneutic Alternative -- Ch. 10. The Politics of the Self -- Appendix: The Self in Western Society.
520 $aIn this groundbreaking "cultural history of psychotherapy," historian and psychologist Philip Cushman shows how the development of modern psychotherapy is inextricably intertwined with that of the United States and how it has fundamentally changed the way Americans view events and themselves. Using an interpretive historical approach, Cushman shows how and why psychotherapy was created, what its functions are, and how it has come to play such an enormous role in American life.
520 8 $aAsserting that each era develops a different conception of "what it means to be human," Cushman traces the evolution of the self throughout history to contemporary times, naming its current configuration in our consumerist society the "empty self," one that needs constant filling.
520 8 $aIn Constructing the Self, Constructing America, he places psychotherapy in its social and historical context, and examines its origins in the nineteenth century to its preeminence in American life today, arguing that its establishment as a social institution may in fact reproduce some of the very ills that it is meant to heal.
520 8 $aFinally, in an unusual move, Cushman suggests a way to use interpretive methods in the everyday practice of psychotherapy. By doing so, he hopes to dissuade both patient and therapist from colluding with the empty self or the rampant consumerism of our time.
650 00 $aPsychotherapy$xSocial aspects$zUnited States.
650 00 $aPsychotherapy$xMoral and ethical aspects.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85108525
650 00 $aIdentity (Psychology)$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122997
650 00 $aIndividualism$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122999
650 12 $aPsychotherapy$xhistory.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D011613Q000266
650 22 $aSociology.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D012961
651 2 $aUnited States.$0https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xPsychological aspects.
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