Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South

• Main Author: Rose, Anne C., 1950-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2009.
• Subjects: Self > History. > Southern States; Identity (Psychology) > History. > Southern States; Segregation > History. > Southern States; Psychology > Study and teaching > History. > Southern States; PSYCHOLOGY > Personality.; Electronic books.
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In the American South at the turn of the twentieth century, the legal segregation of the races and psychological sciences focused on selfhood emerged simultaneously. The two developments presented conflicting views of human nature. American psychiatry and psychology were optimistic about personality...

Table of Contents:

• How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology
• The promise of the child and the limits of progress
• The troubled personalities of the South
• In the Southern borderland of mind and soul
• The short life of Southern psychology.