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Encountering America : humanistic psychology, sixties culture, & the shaping of the modern self / Jessica Grogan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Harper Perennial, c2013.Edition: 1st edDescription: xv, 412 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0061834769
  • 9780061834769 (pbk.)
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Contents:
The problem of psychological health, American culture and psychology in the 1950s -- Common ground, the historical roots of humanistic psychology -- Higher, better leaders, the founders and founding of humanistic psychology -- Self, being, and growth people, forging a psychology of liberation, health, and growth -- Eupsychian visions, idealism, behaviorism, and the flight from the university -- Resacralizing science, humanistic science and the Old Saybrook Conference -- Spreading the news, humanistic psychology in education, business, and religion -- From the Ivory Tower to the Golden Coast, esalen and psychedelics -- The sledgehammer approach to human growth, encounter groups -- Such beauty and such ugliness, counterculture and black-white encounter -- The postmortem years, Maslow's legacy and the close of the 1960s -- A delicious look inward, consciousness raising and women's liberation -- Intellectual slippage, criticism and the theory conference of 1975 -- What remains, the lasting impact of humanistic psychology.
Summary: From sensitivity training to American anxieties about wellness, identity, and purpose, a cultural historian presents a narrative of the psychology movement that reshaped American culture, profiling an array of thought leaders.
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A dramatic narrative history of the psychological movement that reshaped American culture

The expectation that our careers and personal lives should be expressions of our authentic selves, the belief that our relationships should be defined by openness and understanding, the idea that therapy can help us reach our fullest potential--these ideas have become so familiar that it's impossible to imagine our world without them.

In Encountering America, cultural historian Jessica Grogan reveals how these ideas stormed the barricades of our culture through the humanistic psychology movement--the work of a handful of maverick psychologists who revolutionized American culture in the 1960s and '70s. Profiling thought leaders including Abraham Maslow, Rollo May, and Timothy Leary, Grogan draws on untapped primary sources to explore how these minds and the changing cultural atmosphere combined to create a widely influential movement. From the group of ideas that became known as New Age to perennial American anxieties about wellness, identity, and purpose, Grogan traces how humanistic psychology continues to define the way we understand ourselves.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-398) and index.

The problem of psychological health, American culture and psychology in the 1950s -- Common ground, the historical roots of humanistic psychology -- Higher, better leaders, the founders and founding of humanistic psychology -- Self, being, and growth people, forging a psychology of liberation, health, and growth -- Eupsychian visions, idealism, behaviorism, and the flight from the university -- Resacralizing science, humanistic science and the Old Saybrook Conference -- Spreading the news, humanistic psychology in education, business, and religion -- From the Ivory Tower to the Golden Coast, esalen and psychedelics -- The sledgehammer approach to human growth, encounter groups -- Such beauty and such ugliness, counterculture and black-white encounter -- The postmortem years, Maslow's legacy and the close of the 1960s -- A delicious look inward, consciousness raising and women's liberation -- Intellectual slippage, criticism and the theory conference of 1975 -- What remains, the lasting impact of humanistic psychology.

From sensitivity training to American anxieties about wellness, identity, and purpose, a cultural historian presents a narrative of the psychology movement that reshaped American culture, profiling an array of thought leaders.

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