American therapy
Subtitle: the rise of psychotherapy in the United States
By: by Jonathan Engel.
Publisher: Gotham Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781592403806
Subjects: Psychotherapy -- United States -- History; Psychotherapy -- history -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States; Psychoanalysis -- history -- United States
Description: A comprehensive history of psychotherapy in the United States outlines the ways in which Freud's theories are profoundly influencing mental health in America, in a chronicle that also covers such topics as psychosurgery, Gestalt therapy, and psychopharmacology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Freud; title: Orthodoxy and pragmatism; title: A crying need; title: Thinking; title: Alcohol; title: Psychological society; title: Narcissism; title: Narcotics; title: Psychoanalysis in decline; title: Biology.