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Modernizing the mind : psychological knowledge and the remaking of society

Author: Steven C Ward
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Ward, Steven C.
Modernizing the mind.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002
(OCoLC)606855932
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Steven C Ward
ISBN: 0275974502 9780275974503
OCLC Number: 49647879
Description: viii, 279 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: How truth travels : knowledge, networks, and the organization of society --
From a moral philosophy to a science : the struggle to construct and defend the "new psychology" --
For the children : the alliance of psychology and education --
Molding morals and minds : psychology and the modernization of parenting --
Minds, measures, and machines : the materialization of psychological ideas --
A séance or a science? : psychology and its publics --
Psychological codes of civility and the practice of everyday life --
The psychologically examined life : issues, healing, closure, and the psychotherapeutic self --
Conclusiong : The psychologization of the United States --
Appendix : A few important dates in the history of American psychology.
Responsibility: Steven C. Ward.

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