Taming the troublesome child: American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority. by Jones, Kathleen W.

Taming the troublesome child: American families, child guidance, and the limits of psychiatric authority. Jones, Kathleen W.: 22661A Cambridge, MA Harvard University Press 1999 1st ed. Hardback dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good dustjacket), minor edgewear jacket, copy 2. 310 pp. Using the records of Boston's Judge Baker Guidance Centre from 1920 to 1945, the author looks at the relationships among the social activists, doctors, psychologists, social workers, parents, and young people who met in the child guidance clinic, she then puts this professional history of child guidance into the context of the larger culture of age, class, and gender conflict. ISBN: 0674868110 $24.00AUD
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