Constructing The Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy

by Philip Cushman

2020-11-25 03:23:39

In this ground-breaking 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 changed the way Americans... Read more
In this ground-breaking 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 changed the way Americans view events and themselves. By tracing our various definitions of the self throughout history, Cushman reveals that psychotherapy is very much a product of a particular time and place—and that it has been fundamentally complicit in creating many of the ills it seeks to assuage.
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File size9 X 6 X 1.25 in
Print pages448
PublisherHachette Books
Publication date October 1, 1996
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780201441925
Philip Cushman, Ph.D. is a psychotherapist in private practice on Vashon Island, Washington, and retired Clinical Core Faculty member from doctoral programs in psychology at the California School of P...

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