Therapeutic Revolutions : Medicine, Psychiatry, and American Culture, 1945-1970 /

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"Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the w...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Halliwell, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Health and Wellbeing.
Soziokultureller Wandel
Wissenschaftsentwicklung
Psychiatrie
Mental illness.
Psychiatry
Health and Fitness.
social history.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Histoire sociale.
Maladies mentales > Traitement.
Maladies mentales > États-Unis.
History, 20th Century
Social Conditions
Therapeutics > history
Psychiatry > history
Mental Disorders > therapy
Mental Disorders > history
Social history.
Mental illness > Treatment.
Psychiatry > United States.
Mental illness > United States.
USA
United States.
United States
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Going home : World War II and demobilization
  • In the noir mirror : neurosis, aggression, and disguise
  • Ground zero : science, medicine, and the Cold War
  • Organization men : individualism versus incorporation
  • In the family circle : the suburban medicine cabinet
  • Outside the circle : growing pains, delinquency, and sexuality
  • Institutions of care and oppression : another America speaks
  • The human face of therapy : humanistic and existential trends
  • Counterculture : dissent, drugs, and holistic communities.

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