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Psicologia e riforma morale in America [Psychology and moral reform in America]

  • Argues that religious principles--especially Puritan theology--have never ceased to be an undercurrent in American psychology and psychiatry. The Puritan doctrine of human nature, sin, and the Covenant of Grace made the individual responsible for madness as a consequence of sin and unbridled passions; hence, the >moral management< treatment of the insane in Colonial America. Humanistic psychologists (e.g., H. S. Sullivan, K. Horney, E. FROMM, C. Rogers) attributed mental disease to lack of, or only partial, integration into one's sociocultural environment: this goal could be achieved through therapy. Psychology and psychiatry became substitutes for religion, but the Puritan ability to confront the darkest aspects of the human psyche was lost.

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Author:L. Oddo
Parent Title (Italian):Giornale Storico di Psicologia Dinamica, Vol. 12 (No. 24, June 1988), pp. 111-142.
Document Type:Articles
Language:Italian
Year of first Publication:1988
Release Date:2012/12/13
Format:no copy existent / keine Kopie vorhanden
IdNo:Oddo_L_1988
Writings about Erich Fromm (Secondary Literature):Articles / Artikel
Erich Fromm's Library and Erich Fromm Archive:Articles / Artikel
Licence (German):
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