a ISBN 0-201-62643-8

a Original cataloging agency NEU GrandLibrary

a Classification number WM11

b Item number .C84 1995

a Dewey Classification 616.89/14/0973

a Personal name Cushman Philip

a Title Constructing the self, constructing America :

b Remainder of title a cultural history of psychotherapy /

c Statement of responsibility, etc Philip Cushman.

h Medium BOOK

a Title proper/short title Cultural history of psychotherapy

a Place of publication, distribution, etc Boston, Mass. :

b Name of publisher, distributor, etc Addison-Wesley Pub.,

c Date of publication, distribution, etc 1995.

a Extent xiii, 430 p. :

b Other physical details ill. ;

c Dimensions 25 cm.

a Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-414) and index.

a Formatted contents note Ch. 1. Psychotherapy, the Impossible Bridge -- Ch. 2. Selves, Illnesses, Healers, Technologies -- Ch. 3. The Self in America -- Ch. 4. Healing through Self-Domination: Capitalism, the Asylum, the Untamed Female Body, and Freud -- Ch. 5. Healing through Self-Liberation: Mesmerism and the Enchanted American Interior of the Nineteenth Century -- Ch. 6. Strange Bedfellows: The Americanization of Psychoanalysis in the Early Twentieth Century -- Ch. 7. The Road Not Taken: Harry Stack Sullivan, Melanie Klein, and the Location of the Social -- Ch. 8. Self-Liberation through Consumerism: Post-World War II Object Relations Theory, Self-Psychology, and the Empty Self -- Ch. 9. Psychotherapy as Moral Discourse: A Hermeneutic Alternative -- Ch. 10. The Politics of the Self -- Appendix: The Self in Western Society.

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Psychotherapy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Psychotherapy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Identity Psychology

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Individualism

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Psychotherapy

a Topical term or geographic name as entry element Sociology