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On sham, vulnerability, and other forms of self-destruction.
Title:
On sham, vulnerability, and other forms of self-destruction.
Author:
Henry, Jules, 1904-1969.
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Edition:
[First American edition].
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books [1973]
Physical Description:
234 pages ; 19 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
The culture of interpersonal relations in a therapeutic institution for emotionally disturbed children.--Personality and ageing: with special reference to hospitals for the aged poor.--Space and power on a psychiatric unit.--A theory for an anthropological analysis of American culture.--Vulnerability: sources of man's fear in himself and in society.--Values: guilt, suffering, and consequences.--Sham.--Forty-year-old jitters in married urban women.--The United States: from barbarism to decadence without civilization?--Social and psychological preparation for war.--Cross-cultural education.--Ecumenism: an anthropological view.
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ISBN:
9780394719702
Format :
Book