Frontier Struggles Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism / James Schlett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schlett, James, author.

Series:

Center for the History of Psychology Series

The Center for the History of Psychology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

May, Rollo.

Psychotherapy--Law and legislation.

Psychotherapy.

Humanistic psychology.

Psychotherapy--Law and legislation--United States--History.

Humanistic psychology--History.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 228 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

The University of Akron Press, Akron, Ohio : 2021.

Summary:

Frontier Struggles provides the first in-the-trenches account of how Rollo May and his ragtag band of New York psychologists in the early 1950s repeatedly beat back the medical lobby's attempts to legislatively reduce the human condition to biology and create a monopoly on psychotherapy.

Contents:

Cover

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction: The Call

Part 1: Origins

Chapter 1: The Country Is Ailing

Chapter 2: A Tremendous Army of Maladjusted Persons

Chapter 3: Hanging Up a Shingle

Part 2: Tensions

Chapter 4: Insurgency

Chapter 5: Dead Ends and Revivals

Chapter 6: Warning Shots

Part 3: Battles

Chapter 7: Defeat

Chapter 8: Threats

Chapter 9: Blitz

Chapter 10: The Calm before the Storm

Chapter 11: The Last Stand

Chapter 12: Victory

Conclusion: Frontiers

List of Psychology Laws, 1945-77

Original Manuscripts Key

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781629221311

1629221317

9781629221304

1629221309

OCLC:

1287098840