num_pages: 344
description: This provocative volume investigates the ways that changes in ideologies of the family, class, race, gender, and sexuality over the past two centuries have influenced Americans` visions of self and psyche. Challenging the premises of psychohistory, the authors explore "the psychological" as a changing cultural category and "emotions" as historically shifting self-definitions.
language: English
title: Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America
titlecomplete: Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America
ratings_count: 5
publisher: Yale University Press