Modernizing the Mind: Psychological Knowledge and the Remaking of Society

by Steven C. Ward

When did fidgety children begin to suffer from attention deficit disorder? How did frightened people come to be called paranoid? Why are we considered to have emotional intelligence and not simply caring personalities?

While psychological knowledge began in the relative isolation of laboratories and universities, it has since permeated various professions, institutions, and everyday life. Society and our conceptions of self have fundamentally...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275974502
• ISBN13: 9780275974503
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.6"