Psychological subjects : identity, culture, and health in twentieth-century Britain / Mathew Thomson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, Mathew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychology--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Psychology.

Identity (Psychology)--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Identity (Psychology).

Medicine and psychology--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Medicine and psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a history of how twentieth-century Britons came to view themselves and their world in psychological terms, and how this changed over time. It examines the extent to which psychological thought and practice could mediate, not just understanding of the self, but also a wide range of social and economic, political, and ethical issues that rested on assumptions about human nature. In doing so, it brings together high and low psychological cultures; it focuses not just on health,but also on education, economic life, and politics; and it reaches from the start of the century right up to the

Contents:

Part I: Psychologies of the New Age

Practical psychology

Reframing the discipline

After the New Age

Part II: Prospects and problems

Psychology and education

Psychology and the problem of industrial civilisation

Medicine and the psychological

Part III: Ends

Psychology and the mid-century crisis

Towards the permissive society.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-322) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75620-9

1-4294-2195-9

0-19-153703-9

9786610756209

OCLC:

77176608