Friday, January 9, 2004

9:30–11:30 a.m.

21. Shrinking America: The Influence of Psychotherapeutic Thought in American Culture
Omni Shoreham, Congressional A

Chair: Mari Jo Buhle, Brown University
Papers:

“Psyche and Society in a Single Echo Chamber”: Radio Advertising, Social Psychology, and the Audience Commodity, 1926–41
Michael J. Socolow, Brandeis University

Diagnostic Performances: Family Therapy and Popular Culture in Postwar America
Deborah Weinstein, Harvard University

Shrinking the Lonely Crowd in the Anomic Age: Intellectuals, Therapeutics, and the Creation of a Vital Center
Peter Sheehy, The Horace Mann School

Comment: Jill G. Morawski, Wesleyan University