Mathew Thomson

Psychological Subjects

Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

The book considers the extent to which such an ethical and social psychological subjectivity survived the challenges of an industrial civilization, a crisis in confidence regarding human nature wrought by war and political extremism, and finally the emergence of a permissive society. It concludes that many of our own assumptions about the route to psychological modernity - centred on the rise of individualism and interiority, and focusing on the liberation of emotion, and on talk, relationships, and sex - need substantial revision, or at least setting alongside a rather different path when it comes to the Britain of 1900-70.

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Psychological Subjects is a broad-ranging and original historical study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in twentieth-century Britain. Ranging from the excitement about a new age at the start of the century to the permissive society of the 1970s, it offers us a new picture of how Britons of the period came to think about

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780199287802
• ISBN-10: 0199287805
• Artikelnr.: 21125766

Autorenporträt

Mathew Thomson, Senior Lecturer in History, University of Warwick

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
I. Psychologies of the New Age
1: Practical Psychology
2: Reframing the Discipline
3: After the New Age
II. Prospects and Problems
4: Psychology and Education
5: Psychology and the Problem of Industrial Civilization
6: Medicine and the Psychological
III. Ends
7: Psychology and the Mid-Century Crisis
8: Towards the Permissive Society
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index