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Psychology

Aubry Timothy, Travis Trysh

ISBN: PB: 9780226250137, ISBN: HB: 9780226249933, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Social critics have long lamented America's descent into a "culture of narcissism", as Christopher Lasch so lastingly put it fifty years ago. From "first world problems" to political correctness, from the Oprahfication of emotional discourse to the d...

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Psychology

After Freud Left A Century of Psychoanalysis in America

Burnham John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226211862, ISBN: HB: 9780226081373, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 12 halftones

From August 29 to September 21, 1909, Sigmund Freud visited the United States, where he gave five lectures at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. This volume brings together a stunning gallery of leading historians of psychoanalysis and of...

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Psychology

Fuckology Critical Essays on John Money's Diagnostic Concepts

Downing Lisa, Morland Iain, Sullivan Nikki

ISBN: PB: 9780226186610, ISBN: HB: 9780226186580, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

One of the twentieth century's most controversial sexologists – or "fuckologists" to use his own memorable term – John Money was considered a trailblazing scientist and sexual libertarian by some, but damned by others as a fraud and a pervert. Money...

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Psychology

Madness Is Civilization When the Diagnosis Was Social, 1948-1980

Staub Michael E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214634, ISBN: HB: 9780226771472, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for America's problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscene social...

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Philosophy

Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon Toward a Political History of Madness

Murat Laure

ISBN: HB: 9780226025735, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Man Who Thought He Was Napoleon" is built around a bizarre historical event and an off-hand challenge. The event? In December 1840, nearly twenty years after his death, the remains of Napoleon were returned to Paris for burial – and the next day...

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Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

Herring Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780226171715, ISBN: HB: 9780226171685, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 1 line drawing

The verb "declutter" has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it's only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV pro...

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Psychology

Restoration of the Self

Kohut Heinz

ISBN: PB: 9780226450131, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
368 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

In his foundational work "The Restoration of the Self", noted psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut boldly challenges what he called "the limits of classical analytic theory" and the Freudian orthodoxy. Here Kohut proposes a "psychology of the self" as a theory...

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Psychology

Boy on the Beach Building Community through Play

Paley Vivian Gussin

ISBN: PB: 9780226150956, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
104 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Four-year-old Eli plays alone at the shore, inventing dramas out of sand and water. He is Builder, Fireman, Protector, and Scout, overcoming waves and conquering monsters. Enter Marianne and doll, Mother and Baby, eager to redefine Eli as a good fath...

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Psychology

Boys and Girls Superheroes in the Doll Corner

Gussin Paley Vivian

ISBN: PB: 9780226130101, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
144 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

With the publication of "Boys and Girls" in 1984, Vivian Gussin Paley took readers inside a kindergarten classroom to show them how boys and girls play – and how, by playing and fantasizing in different ways, they work through complicated notions of...

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Agewise Fighting the New Ageism in America

Gullette Margaret Morganroth

ISBN: PB: 9780226101866, ISBN: HB: 9780226310732, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
304 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 2 halftones

Let's face it: almost everyone fears growing older. We worry about losing our looks, our health, our jobs, our self-esteem – and being supplanted in work and love by younger people. It feels like the natural, inevitable consequence of the passing yea...

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