Frontier Struggles: Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism

by James Schlett

Overview

Frontier Struggles provides the first in-the-trenches account of how Rollo May and his ragtag band of New York psychologists in the early 1950s repeatedly beat back the medical lobby's attempts to legislatively reduce the human condition to biology and create a monopoly on psychotherapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629221328
Publisher:	University of Akron Press, The
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Series:	Center for the History of Psychology Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

James Schlett is an award-winning author, poet and journalist. He is the author of A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015), winner of the Adirondack Center for Writing’s Adirondack Literary Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction in 2015.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction: The Call 1

Part 1 Origins

1 The Country Is Ailing 15

2 A Tremendous Army of Maladjusted Persons 30

3 Hanging Up a Shingle 42

Part 2 Tensions

4 Insurgency 57

5 Dead Ends and Revivals 70

6 Warning Shots 82

Part 3 Battles

7 Defeat 97

8 Threats 110

9 Blitz 123

10 The Calm before the Storm 136

11 The Last Stand 147

12 Victory 159

Conclusion: Frontiers 174

List of Psychology Laws, 1945-77 185

Original Manuscripts Key 187

Notes 189

Bibliography 213