Alexandra

“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

“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

“we never change. Our thoughts stay the same, our habits stay the same, so our lives stay the same. I could read every self-help book ever written, but it wouldn’t matter if I continued to cling to my story like a life preserver.”
― Khalil Rafati, I Forgot to Die

“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