On sham, vulnerability, and other forms of self-destruction.
Edition: [1st American ed.]
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1973
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
Subjects: Social psychiatry.; United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.; United States -- Civilization -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The culture of interpersonal relations in a therapeutic institution for emotionally disturbed children.; title: Personality and ageing: with special reference to hospitals for the aged poor.; title: Space and power on a psychiatric unit.; title: A theory for an anthropological analysis of American culture.; title: Vulnerability: sources of man's fear in himself and in society.; title: Values: guilt, suffering, and consequences.; title: Sham.; title: Forty-year-old jitters in married urban women.; title: The United States: from barbarism to decadence without civilization?; title: Social and psychological preparation for war.; title: Cross-cultural education.; title: Ecumenism: an anthropological view.