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Modernizing the mind psychological knowledge and the remaking of society
Title:
Modernizing the mind psychological knowledge and the remaking of society
Author:
Ward, Steven C.
ISBN:
9780313012204
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 279 p.)
Contents:
How truth travels : knowledge, networks, and the organization of society -- From a moral philosophy to a science : the struggle to construct and defend the "new psychology" -- For the children : the alliance of psychology and education -- Molding morals and minds : psychology and the modernization of parenting -- Minds, measures, and machines : the materialization of psychological ideas -- A séance or a science? : psychology and its publics -- Psychological codes of civility and the practice of everyday life -- The psychologically examined life : issues, healing, closure, and the psychotherapeutic self -- Conclusiong : The psychologization of the United States -- Appendix : A few important dates in the history of American psychology.
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Electronic Access:
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