Psychological Subjects - Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain

Zusatztext ...the book overall is illuminating, original and convincing... Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 themselves and their world psychologically. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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• Authors: Mathew Thomson, Mathew (Senior Lecturer in History Thomson, Thomson Mathew
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.05.2006
• EAN: 9780199287802
• ISBN: 978-0-19-928780-2
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; European History, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history