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Resituating humanistic psychology : finding meaning in an age of medicalization, digitization, and identity politics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Whitehead, Patrick M., 1986- (Author), Groth, Miles (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2019]
Subjects:
Humanistic psychology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Psychology (and what it isn't)
  • The early promise of psychology
  • A nation ill-at-ease: the precursors to 1960s humanistic revolution
  • Insights for research and education from the humanistic movement in psychology
  • From talking cure to psychotherapy: a history of the helping profession
  • May the force be with you: humanistic contributions to psychotherapy
  • Scientific precursors to the second humanistic revolution
  • The fundamentals of existentialism
  • Psychopathologization
  • Identity politics
  • Resituating psychology in the humanities
  • Conclusion: looking back, looking forward: the therapeutes of then and now.