Mind games : American culture and the birth of psychotherapy / / Eric Caplan [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Caplan Eric <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c1998
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 242 p. )
• Disciplina: 616.89/00973
• Soggetto topico: Mental healing - United States - History - 19th century; Psychotherapy - Social aspects - United States; Psychotherapy - United States - History - 19th century; Mental Healing - history; Psychotherapy - history; Mental Healing; Psychology, Social; Culture; History, 19th Century; Psychotherapy; Behavioral Disciplines and Activities; Spiritual Therapies; Psychology; History, Modern 1601-; Anthropology, Cultural; Sociology; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Mind-Body Therapies; Behavioral Sciences; Anthropology; Psychiatry; Social Sciences; Complementary Therapies; History; Therapeutics; Humanities; Psychiatry - General; Health & Biological Sciences
• Soggetto geografico: United States Social life and customs 19th century; United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Eric 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mind games
• ISBN: 0-520-92702-8; 0-585-06873-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910495885303321
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