From middle-class American women to French managers: The transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training, c. 1950s–1980s.
Lucie Gerber
Abstract:This article explores the contribution of behavior therapy to the extension of psychotherapeutic notions and techniques into everyday life, focusing on the transatlantic trajectory of assertiveness training. It traces the history of this behavioral intervention into interindividual relations from its emergence as a treatment for anxiety in postwar United States to its importation into the French field of continuing professional training at the turn of the 1980s. To understand what traveled between countries an… Show more
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