Intro -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. The Therapeutic Revolutions of Postward America -- Part 1. Fragmentation 1945-1983 -- Chapter 1. Going Home, World War II and Demobilization -- Chapter 2. In the Noir Mirror, Neurosis, Agression, and Disguise -- Chapter 3. Ground Zero, Science, Medicine, and the Cold War -- Part 2. Organization 1953-1961 -- Chapter4. Organization Men, Individualism vs Incorporation -- Chapter 5. In the Family Circle, The Suburban Medicine Cabinet -- Chapter 6. Outside the Circle, Growing pains, Deliquency, and Sexuality -- Part 3. Reorganization 1961-1970 -- Chapter 7. Institutions of Care and Opression, Another American Speaks -- Chapter 8. The Human face of Therapy, Humanistic and Existential Trends -- Chapter 9. Counterculture, Dissent, Drugs, and Holistic Communities -- Conclusion. Beyond the two Cultures? -- Notes -- Index -- Figure 1.1  Dr. Brock (Everett Sloane) tries to counsel a stubborn Bud Wilcheck (Marlon Brando). The Men (Fred Zinnemann, United Artists, 1950). -- Figure 1.2  Al Schmid (John Garfield) and Ruth Hartley (Eleanor Parker) appear in Al's blindness dream. Pride of the Marines (Delmer Daves, Warner Brothers, 1945). -- Figure 1.3  A hospitalized Larry Nevins (Arthur Kennedy) struggles to come to terms with his blindness. Bright Victory (Mark Robson, Universal, 1951). -- Figure 2.1  Philip Marlowe (Dick Powell) struggles to regain consciousness after being drugged. Murder, My Sweet (Edward Dmytryk, RKO, 1944). -- Figure 2.2  Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman) tries to unravel a psychiatric case as John Ballantine (Gregory Peck) sleeps in Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, United Artists, 1945).

Figure 3.1  Grant Williams as Scott Carey contemplates his diminished size, surrounded by ineffectual medical cures. Publicity still for The Incredible Shrinking Man (Jack Arnold, Universal, 1957). -- Figure 3.2  Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy), wearing a tie, and friends contemplate a biological invasion early in Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, Allied Artists, 1956). -- Figure 4.1  Fred Staples (Van Heflin) discovers that an older co-­worker, William Briggs (Ed Begley), is close to a breakdown. Patterns (Fielder Cook, United Artists, 1956). -- Figure 4.2  Tom Rath (Gregory Peck) struggles to tell his life story during a job interview. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson, Twentieth Century-­Fox, 1956). -- Figure 5.1  Herblock, "Split-­Level Living," Washington Post, 9 March 1960. © The Herb Block Foundation. -- Figure 5.2  An anxious Betsy Rath (Jennifer Jones) in her suburban Connecticut kitchen. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Nunnally Johnson, Twentieth Century-­Fox, 1956). -- Figure 5.3  A psychotic Ed Avery (James Mason) destroys his suburban house and his family during a fight with Wally Gibbs (Walter Matthau). Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray, Twentieth Century-­Fox, 1956). -- Figure 6.1  Herblock, "Ever Think of Starting the Motor?," Washington Post, 16 July 1956. © The Herb Block Foundation. -- Figure 6.2  Jim (James Dean), Judy (Natalie Wood), and Plato (Sal Mineo) find their own space in an abandoned mansion. Rebel without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, Warner Brothers, 1955). -- Figure 6.3  Laura Reynolds (Deborah Kerr) offers sympathetic words to the bullied Tom Lee (John Kerr). Tea and Sympathy (Vincente Minnelli, MGM, 1956). -- Figure 7.1  Johnny Barrett (Peter Breck) contemplates Trent (Hari Rhodes), who incites racial hatred. Shock Corridor (Samuel Fuller, Allied Artists, 1963).

Figure 7.2  An institutionalized Dale Nelson (Stuart Whitman) receives aggressive therapy. Shock Treatment (Denis Sanders, Twentieth Century-­Fox, 1964). -- Figure 8.2  Walter Younger (Sidney Poitier) tries to overcome his depression with a three-­day drinking session. A Raisin in the Sun (Daniel Petrie, Columbia, 1961). -- Figure 9.1  Paul Groves (Peter Fonda) is guided by John (Bruce Dern) during his LSD experience. The Trip (Roger Corman, American International Pictures, 1967). -- Figure 9.2  Elliot Gould, Natalie Wood, Robert Culp, and Dyan Cannon (left to right) self-­administer group therapy after a visit to The Institute. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky, Columbia, 1969).

Therapeutic Revolutions examines the evolving relationship between American medicine, psychiatry, and culture from World War II to the dawn of the 1970s. In this richly layered intellectual history, Martin Halliwell ranges from national politics, public reports, and health care debates to the ways in which film, literature, and the mass media provided cultural channels for shaping and challenging preconceptions about health and illness.

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