Author: Justman, Stewart
Title: The Psychological Mystique
Description: Evanston [IL], Northwestern University Pres, 1998. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 24x15cm, 181 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Locke & His Successors; Puppet Government: The Art of Edward Bernays; Entrapment as Science: The Milgram Experiment; Herbert Marcuse: Political Therapy; We Dream Alone: Heart of Darkness; Dostoevesky & X-Ray Vision; George Orwell: Moral Effort; The Voiding of Moral Categories; Final Reflections: Locke & Milton. ["This text weighs the influence of psychology on culture, traces the therapeutic model to its roots, and examines the connection between psychology and the marketing of goods and ideas. The author finds that the influence of psychology has saturated contemporary life both public and private. The book tracks the expansion of the therapeutic project from its beginnings in Locke and considers reflections on and of psychology in a number of authors, including Orwell, Conrad and Dostoevsky" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: Philosophy of Psychology, Ethnopsychology, , , , , , ,