Part I: Psychologies of the New Age -- Practical psychology -- Reframing the discipline -- After the New Age -- Part II: Prospects and problems -- Psychology and education -- Psychology and the problem of industrial civilisation -- Medicine and the psychological -- Part III: Ends -- Psychology and the mid-century crisis -- Towards the permissive society
Summary
This is a study of how psychological thinking developed as a feature of life in 20th century Britain. Ranging from the excitement about a new age at the start of the century to the permissive society of the 1970s, it offers us a new picture of how Britons of the period came to think about themselves and their world psychologically
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-322) and index
