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100 1 _aGrogan, Jessica.
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245 1 0 _aEncountering America :
_bhumanistic psychology, sixties culture, & the shaping of the modern self /
_cJessica Grogan.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bHarper Perennial,
_cc2013.
300 _axv, 412 p. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [327]-398) and index.
505 0 _aThe 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.
520 _aFrom 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.
650 0 _aHumanistic psychology.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xCivilization
_y1945-
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_y1945-1970.
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651 0 _aUnited States
_xSocial life and customs
_y1971-
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