In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell
The Feminist Present
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The Freudian Psychotherapy of the 1950s
In the 1950s, institutional Freudian therapy reached this kind of apotheosis in America. It was a way of reifying bourgeois morality at a time when it was coming undone. In terms of how this was later criticized by a second way of feminist, think about like Betty Draper in Mad Men and Don sending her to seeming like quite orthodox Freudian psychotherapist.
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