06108pam 2201237 a 450 991049588530332120231023220909.00-520-92702-80-585-06873-910.1525/9780520927025(CKB)111000211188800(MH)007862181-X(SSID)ssj0000203159(PQKBManifestationID)12066608(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000203159(PQKBWorkID)10256028(PQKB)11743191(DE-B1597)648349(DE-B1597)9780520927025(EXLCZ)9911100021118880019980325d1998 ub 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMind games American culture and the birth of psychotherapy /Eric Caplan[electronic resource]Berkeley, Calif. University of California Pressc19981 online resource (xiii, 242 p. )Medicine and society Mind gamesMedicine and society ;9Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-520-21169-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-235) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 12 Trains, Brains, and Sprains: Railway Spine and the Origins of Psychoneuroses -- 3 Avoiding Psychotherapy: Neurasthenia and the Limits of Somatic Therapy -- 4 Inventing Psychotherapy: The American Mind Cure Movement, 1830-190 0 -- 5 Flirting with Psychotherapy: Somatic Intransigence and the "Advanced Guard" -- 6 Embracing Psychotherapy: The Emmanuel Movement and the American Medical Profession -- 7 Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- IndexEric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, Mind Games tells the remarkable story of how a widely assorted group of actors-none of them hailing from Vienna or from any other European city-compelled a reluctant medical profession to accept a new role for the mind in medicine. By the time Freud first set foot on American soil in 1909, as Caplan demonstrates, psychotherapy was already integrally woven into the fabric of American culture and medicine.What came to be known as psychotherapy emerged in the face of considerable opposition, much-indeed most-of which was generated by the medical profession itself. Caplan examines the contentious interplay within the American medical community, as well as between American physicians and their lay rivals, who included faith-healers, mind-curists, Christian Scientists, and Protestant ministers. These early practitioners of alternative medicine ultimately laid the groundwork for a distinctive and much heralded American type of psychotherapy. Its grudging acceptance by both medical elites and rank and file physicians signified their understanding that reliance on physical therapies to treat nervous and mental symptoms compromised their capacity to treat-and compete-effectively in a rapidly expanding mental-medical marketplace. Mind Games shows how psychotherapy came to occupy its central position in mainstream American culture.Mental healingUnited StatesHistory19th centuryPsychotherapySocial aspectsUnited StatesPsychotherapyUnited StatesHistory19th centuryMental HealinghistoryPsychotherapyhistoryMental HealingPsychology, SocialCultureHistory, 19th CenturyPsychotherapyBehavioral Disciplines and ActivitiesSpiritual TherapiesPsychologyHistory, Modern 1601-Anthropology, CulturalSociologyBehavior and Behavior MechanismsMind-Body TherapiesBehavioral SciencesAnthropologyPsychiatrySocial SciencesComplementary TherapiesHistoryTherapeuticsHumanitiesPsychiatry - GeneralHILCCPsychiatryHILCCHealth & Biological SciencesHILCCUnited StatesSocial life and customs19th centuryUnited StatesMental healingHistoryPsychotherapySocial aspectsPsychotherapyHistoryMental HealinghistoryPsychotherapyhistoryMental HealingPsychology, SocialCultureHistory, 19th CenturyPsychotherapyBehavioral Disciplines and ActivitiesSpiritual TherapiesPsychologyHistory, Modern 1601-Anthropology, CulturalSociologyBehavior and Behavior MechanismsMind-Body TherapiesBehavioral SciencesAnthropologyPsychiatrySocial SciencesComplementary TherapiesHistoryTherapeuticsHumanitiesPsychiatry - GeneralPsychiatryHealth & Biological Sciences616.89/00973Caplan Eric1962-1233727DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910495885303321Mind games2865537UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress