Jessica Grogan > Quotes

“Although Freud himself had intended to oppose oppressive standards of morality and intrusive forms of governmental control, Freudian theory was often deployed in America to shore up the status quo and to pathologize individuals who departed from it.13”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“1909, in opposition to his own statements in Principles, James identified the need for a humanistic psychology, one that employed phenomenological methods to capture subjective experience. He asserted: “The world of concrete personal experience [ . . . ] is multitudinous beyond imagination, tangled, muddy, painful and perplexed. The world to which your philosophy professor introduces you is simple, clean and noble. The contradictions of real life are absent from it.”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“American psychology had grown at an exorbitant rate in the years after World War II. This was, in part, because of the government’s interest in assuaging cultural fears over the prevalence of “psychoneurotic” illness in returning servicemen.7”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“Their highest ambition, it seemed, was to rehabilitate fallen individuals to better conform to social expectations.”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“American psychology was elevated by the insights of humanistic psychologists, damaged by their excesses, and, ultimately, forever changed.”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“We encounter distortions of humanistic psychology in our daily lives, as well. Talk shows and self-help books, for example, often tout the importance of being true to our inner selves, even when it’s at the expense of our families or our community. In defiance of the intentions of Maslow and others to reform society by improving individuals, these cultural voices may be so committed to affirming the individual that they ignore moral questions and encourage selfishness.”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self

“Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight.” ROLLO MAY”
― Jessica Grogan, Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self