LEADER 03609nam 2200625 a 450 001 9910457472603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-86424-X 010 $a0-8135-5107-2 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813551074 035 $a(CKB)2550000000083660 035 $a(EBL)848721 035 $a(OCoLC)775301971 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000599791 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11368906 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599791 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10614534 035 $a(PQKB)10917121 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC848721 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8157 035 $a(DE-B1597)529227 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813551074 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL848721 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531172 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL417674 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000083660 100 $a20100518d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPrivate practices$b[electronic resource] $eHarry Stack Sullivan, the science of homosexuality, and American liberalism /$fNaoko Wake 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (281 p.) 300 $aUpdated version of author's doctoral thesis--Indiana University, 2005. 311 $a0-8135-4958-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aA man, a doctor, and his patients -- Illness within a hospital and without -- Life history for science and subjectivity -- Homosexuality : the stepchild of interwar liberalism -- The military, psychiatry, and "unfit" soldiers -- "One-man" liberalism goes to the world. 330 $aPrivate Practices examines the relationship between science, sexuality, gender, race, and culture in the making of modern America between 1920 and 1950, when contradictions among liberal intellectuals affected the rise of U.S. conservatism. Naoko Wake focuses on neo-Freudian, gay psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan, founder of the interpersonal theory of mental illness. She explores medical and social scientists' conflicted approach to homosexuality, particularly the views of scientists who themselves lived closeted lives. Wake discovers that there was a gap--often dramatic, frequently subtle--between these scientists' "public" understanding of homosexuality (as a "disease") and their personal, private perception (which questioned such a stigmatizing view). This breach revealed a modern culture in which self-awareness and open-mindedness became traits of "mature" gender and sexual identities. Scientists considered individuals of society lacking these traits to be "immature," creating an unequal relationship between practitioners and their subjects. In assessing how these dynamics--the disparity between public and private views of homosexuality and the uneven relationship between scientists and their subjects--worked to shape each other, Private Practices highlights the limits of the scientific approach to subjectivity and illuminates its strange career--sexual subjectivity in particular--in modern U.S. culture. 606 $aGay psychiatrists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aHomosexuality$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGay psychiatrists 615 0$aHomosexuality$xHistory 676 $a616.890092 676 $aB 700 $aWake$b Naoko$01031379 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457472603321 996 $aPrivate practices$92448729 997 $aUNINA