Therapeutic revolutions [[electronic resource] ] : medicine, psychiatry, and American culture, 1945-1970 / / Martin Halliwell

• Autore: Halliwell Martin
• Pubblicazione: New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.19689
• Soggetto topico: Mental illness - United States; Mental health services - United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Going home : demobilization after World War II -- In the noir mirror : neurosis, aggression, and disguise -- Ground zero : science, medicine, and the Cold War -- The organization man : self-help versus incorporation -- In the family circle : the suburban medicine cabinet -- Outside the family : growing pains, delinquency, and sexuality -- Institutions of care and oppression : another America speaks -- The human face of therapy : humanistic and existential trends -- Counterculture : dissent, drugs, and holistic communities.
• Sommario/riassunto: Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970's. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.
• Titolo autorizzato: Therapeutic revolutions
• ISBN: 0-8135-6066-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786250803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II