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The Mad Doctors.(The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents)
The Road to Malpsychia: Humanistic Psychology and Our Discontents, by Joyce Milton (Encounter, 310 pp., $26.95)
If you want to understand the cultural revolution that took place in the 1960s, this book is a good place to start. Joyce Milton implies, without ever saying so directly, that psychological theories can bring about dramatic cultural change. We are used to the fact that political, economic, and religious ideas can cause revolutions; Milton's account offers evidence that psychological ideas can have the same power.
"Malpsychia" means bad psychology, and the chief characters in this book are the proponents of one particular kind of it: Abraham ...
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- Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology January 1, 2001 700+ words
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