Book Review

摘要

Rhodri Hayward’s provides an illuminating insight into the development of psychologicalmodels of selfhood that are relatively central to modern debates about medicine and health. Itexplores the historical connections formed between health, identity and personal history,investigates shifting conceptions of the psyche in modern Britain and probes into the changinginteractions between doctors and patients as researchers constantly reconfigured the conceptof psychological distress. In adopting this approach, Hayward provides an importantcontribution to a growing body of historical research into the development of modernpsychological thought and its influence in individual, social and political domains.