ISBN:
0-8018-6403-8
Language:
English
Pages:
X, 342 S.
DDC:
361.1/0973
Keywords:
Geschichte 1900-2000
;
Geschichte 1800-1900
;
Actualisation de soi
;
Bonheur
;
Geluk
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Problèmes sociaux - États-Unis - Histoire - 19e siècle
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Problèmes sociaux - États-Unis - Histoire - 20e siècle
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Psychotherapie
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Psychothérapie - Ouvrages de vulgarisation
;
Welbevinden
;
Zelfverwerkelijking
;
Geschichte
;
Psychotherapie
;
Happiness
;
Happiness Popular Works
;
Psychotherapy Popular works
;
Psychotherapy Popular Works
;
Self Concept Popular Works
;
Self-actualization (Psychology)
;
Social Conditions Popular Works history
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Social Problems Popular Works history
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Social problems History 19th century
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Social problems History 20th century
;
Sozialpsychologie.
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Psychologie.
;
Lebenshilfe.
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États-Unis - Conditions sociales
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USA
;
United States Social conditions
;
USA.
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Sozialpsychologie
;
Psychologie
;
Lebenshilfe
Abstract:
"Beginning with the example of a "Mind Cure" developed by mid-nineteenth-century clockmaker Phineas P. Quimby, Moskowitz explains how Americans' growing fascination with therapy led them to adopt new kinds of reform - including, at the turn of the twentieth century, provisions for psychological services in prisons, courts, hospitals, and schools. Depression-era divorce rates prompted colleges and high schools to offer courses on marital happiness and produced a new marriage-counseling industry. During World War II, Moskowitz shows, the army devoted unprecedented energy to a soldier's "psychological readiness for combat." Moskowitz also explores more recent developments, including Cold War-era psychological assumptions of magazine campaigns that targeted unhappy housewives. She confronts the social protest movements in the 60s and the explosion of 70s self-help fads that continue to the present." "In a study that encompasses all aspects of American society - from television talk shows to the criminal justice system, from office politics to world politics - Moskowitz identifies a debilitating "sense of self" that is intimately bound up with the major developments of the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.
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