Eric Caplan - Medicine and Society: Mind Games : American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy 9 FB2, TXT
9780520211698 0520211693 Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, "Mind Games" tells the remarkable story of how a widely assorted group of actorsnone of them hailing from Vienna or from any other European citycompelled a reluctant medical profession to accept a new role for the mind in medicine. By the time Freud first set foot on American soil in 1909, as Caplan demonstrates, psychotherapy was already integrally woven into the fabric of American culture and medicine. What came to be known as psychotherapy emerged in the face of considerable opposition, muchindeed mostof which was generated by the medical profession itself. Caplan examines the contentious interplay within the American medical community, as well as between American physicians and their lay rivals, who included faith-healers, mind-curists, Christian Scientists, and Protestant ministers. These early practitioners of alternative medicine ultimately laid the groundwork for a distinctive and much heralded American type of psychotherapy. Its grudging acceptance by both medical elites and rank and file physicians signified their understanding that reliance on physical therapies to treat nervous and mental symptoms compromised their capacity to treatand competeeffectively in a rapidly expanding mental-medical marketplace. "Mind Games" shows how psychotherapy came to occupy its central position in mainstream American culture.", This exploration of Victorian culture in the United States seeks to destroy the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the prehistory of American mental therapeutics, the book tells the story of how a widely assorted group of actors compelled a reluctant medical profession to accept a new role for the mind in medicine. The author demonstrates that by the time Freud arrived in America in 1909, psychotherapy was already integrated into American culture and medicine.
9780520211698 0520211693 Eric Caplan's fascinating exploration of Victorian culture in the United States shatters the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the long-buried "prehistory" of American mental therapeutics, "Mind Games" tells the remarkable story of how a widely assorted group of actorsnone of them hailing from Vienna or from any other European citycompelled a reluctant medical profession to accept a new role for the mind in medicine. By the time Freud first set foot on American soil in 1909, as Caplan demonstrates, psychotherapy was already integrally woven into the fabric of American culture and medicine. What came to be known as psychotherapy emerged in the face of considerable opposition, muchindeed mostof which was generated by the medical profession itself. Caplan examines the contentious interplay within the American medical community, as well as between American physicians and their lay rivals, who included faith-healers, mind-curists, Christian Scientists, and Protestant ministers. These early practitioners of alternative medicine ultimately laid the groundwork for a distinctive and much heralded American type of psychotherapy. Its grudging acceptance by both medical elites and rank and file physicians signified their understanding that reliance on physical therapies to treat nervous and mental symptoms compromised their capacity to treatand competeeffectively in a rapidly expanding mental-medical marketplace. "Mind Games" shows how psychotherapy came to occupy its central position in mainstream American culture.", This exploration of Victorian culture in the United States seeks to destroy the myth of Freud's seminal role in the creation of American psychotherapy. Resurrecting the prehistory of American mental therapeutics, the book tells the story of how a widely assorted group of actors compelled a reluctant medical profession to accept a new role for the mind in medicine. The author demonstrates that by the time Freud arrived in America in 1909, psychotherapy was already integrated into American culture and medicine.