Psychology and Selfhood in the Segregated South : Science Restrained /

In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rose, Anne C., 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self.
Segregation.
Psychology > Study and teaching.
Identity (Psychology)
Psychology > Study and teaching > Southern States > History.
Segregation > Southern States > History.
Identity (Psychology) > Southern States > History.
Self > Southern States > History.
Southern States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology
  • The promise of the child and the limits of progress
  • The troubled personalities of the South
  • In the Southern borderland of mind and soul
  • The short life of Southern psychology.

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