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Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South /

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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rose, Anne C., 1950-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.