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Jessica Grogan
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“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”
― Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self
― 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.”
― Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self
― 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”
― Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self
― Encountering America: Humanistic Psychology, Sixties Culture & the Shaping of the Modern Self
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