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Author Cushman, Philip.

Title Constructing the self, constructing America : a cultural history of psychotherapy / Philip Cushman.

Publication Info. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., [1995]
©1995

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  616.891 C    Check Shelf
Description xiii, 430 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-414) and index.
Contents Psychotherapy, the impossible bridge -- Selves, illnesses, healers, technologies -- The self in America -- Healing through self-domination -- Healing through self-liberation -- Strange bedfellows -- The road not taken -- Self-liberation through consumerism -- Psychotherapy as moral discourse -- The politics of the self.
Subject Psychotherapy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Psychotherapy -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Identity (Psychology) -- United States.
Individualism -- United States.
Psychotherapy -- history -- United States.
Sociology.
United States -- Civilization -- Psychological aspects.
ISBN 0201626438: $27.50 ($35.95 Can.)
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