TY  - BOOK
AU  - Grogan,Jessica
TI  - Encountering America: humanistic psychology, sixties culture, & the shaping of the modern self 
SN  - 0061834769
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Harper Perennial
KW  - Humanistic psychology
KW  - United States
KW  - Civilization
KW  - 1945-
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 1945-1970
KW  - 1971-
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -