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Psychological Subjects - Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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Psychological Subjects - Identity, Culture, and Health in Twentieth-Century Britain (Hardcover, New)
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This is a history of how twentieth-century Britons came to view
themselves and their world in psychological terms, and how this
changed over time. It examines the extent to which psychological
thought and practice could mediate, not just understanding of the
self, but also a wide range of social and economic, political, and
ethical issues that rested on assumptions about human nature. In
doing so, it brings together high and low psychological cultures;
it focuses not just on health, but also on education, economic
life, and politics; and it reaches from the start of the century
right up to the 1970s. Mathew Thomson highlights the intense
excitement surrounding psychology at the start of the century, and
its often highly unorthodox expression in thought and practice. He
argues that the appeal of psychological thinking has been
underestimated in the British context, partly because its character
has been misconstrued. Psychology found a role because, rather than
shattering values, it offered them new life. The book considers the
extent to which such an ethical and social psychological
subjectivity survived the challenges of an industrial civilization,
a crisis in confidence regarding human nature wrought by war and
political extremism, and finally the emergence of a permissive
society. It concludes that many of our own assumptions about the
route to psychological modernity - centred on the rise of
individualism and interiority, and focusing on the liberation of
emotion, and on talk, relationships, and sex - need substantial
revision, or at least setting alongside a rather different path
when it comes to the Britain of 1900-70.
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