American Therapy The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

by Engel, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9781592403806
• ISBN10: 1592403808
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-10-30
• Publisher: Gotham

Summary

When did alcoholism first become defined as a problem susceptible to therapeutic intervention? How did postwar suburban affluence affect America's perception of mental health and mental health care? When did therapy become a reasonable recourse for the middle class or the worried well or the unhappily married? And how, at each juncture, have psychiatry and psychoanalysis responded to growth and innovation among alternate healers? American Therapy answers these questions and more, with a sweeping look at the history of mental health care, examining the social context in which therapy has grown and developed in America. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jonathan Engel holds a Ph.D. in the history of science and medicine from Yale, and has written extensively about the historical development of U.S. medicine and health policy. His previous books are Doctors and Reformers: Discussion and Debate of Health Policy 1925- 1950, Poor People-'s Medicine: American Charity Care Since 1965, and The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS. He is a professor of health care policy and management at Seton Hall University.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. IX
Freud	p. 1
Orthodoxy and Pragmatism	p. 19
A Crying Need	p. 43
Thinking	p. 76
Alcohol	p. 109
Psychological Society	p. 132
Narcissism	p. 167
Narcotics	p. 195
Psychoanalysis in Decline	p. 218
Biology	p. 240
Afterword	p. 255
Acknowledgments	p. 263
Notes	p. 265
Bibliography	p. 307
Index	p. 341
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