Therapeutic revolutions
Subtitle: medicine, psychiatry, and American culture, 1945-1970
By: Martin Halliwell
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780813560649; 9780813560656; 9780813560663
Subjects: Psychiatry; Therapeutics; Therapy; Social Conditions; History, 20th Century; Mental Disorders; History
Description: "Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and healthcare debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness. Beginning with a discussion of the profound impact of World War II and the Cold War on mental health, Halliwell moves from the influence of work, family, and growing up in the Eisenhower years to the critique of institutional practice and the search for alternative therapeutic communities during the 1960s. Blending a discussion of such influential postwar thinkers as Erich Fromm, William Menninger, Erving Goffman, Erik Erikson, and Herbert Marcuse with perceptive readings of a range of cultural text that illuminate mental health issues--among them Spellbound, Shock Corridor, Revolutionary Road, and I Never Promised You a Rose Garden--this compelling study argues that the postwar therapeutic revolutions closely interlink contrasting discourses of authority and liberation." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Going home : demobilization after World War II; title: In the noir mirror : neurosis, aggression, and disguise; title: Ground zero : science, medicine, and the Cold War; title: The organization man : self-help versus incorporation; title: In the family circle : the suburban medicine cabinet; title: Outside the family : growing pains, delinquency, and sexuality; title: Institutions of care and oppression : another America speaks; title: The human face of therapy : humanistic and existential trends; title: Counterculture : dissent, drugs, and holistic communities.