beyond words: the story of sensitivity training and the encounter movement (a pelican book)

Beyond Words: The Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter Movement ( A Pelican Book)

Self-Help

Back, Kurt W.

Personal Transformation

Penguin??Books

A comprehensive introductory social psychology text edited by Kurt Back in consultation with Klineberg, Gergen, Gamson, Scott and others. Readable, attractively designed, it features not only theoretical perspectives and experimental findings for such core subjects as attitudes, groups, and influence, but includes a chapter each on environmental stress and deviance.

Social Psychology

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

Family Planning and Population Control: The Challenges of a Successful Movement (Social Movements Past and Present)

Reviews the historical origins of contraception, analyzes current conflicts, and gives perspectives on the family planning movement

Family Planning and Population Control: The Challenges of a Successful Movement (SOCIAL MOVEMENTS PAST AND PRESENT)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Twayne Pub

Sensitivity training, T-Groups, and encounter groups have become a way of life. Beyond Words traces the history of this movement, the background of its successes, its varieties, and its failures. Dr. Back's approach is neither one of wide-eyed admiration nor hostility. Instead, he has written a book that provides the first long, hard look at sensitivity training as a social phenomenon. From its fortuitous beginnings the movement is followed through its developments at Bethel, its growth across the country, its new centers in California, its spread to Europe. The novelty of this movement, an almost religious exercise based on the scientific ethos, is related to the peculiar conditions of the last quarter century. The movement has acquired its own mythos. Dr. Back examines the interplay of the conflicting aims of self-expression and change, and shows how these contradictory aims have affected the ramifications of the movement in theory, in management, in recreation, and in education. Results emerging from studies on effects of sensitivity training indicate a recurrent pattern of great immediate emphasis followed by little permanent beneficial effect. Finally, Beyond Words assesses the overall impact of the movement, its relation to science, its possible changes, and its portent as a symptom of the state of society. Dr. Back examines the interplay of the conflicting aims of self-expression and change, and shows how these contradictory aims have affected the ramifications of the movement in theory, in management, in recreation, and in education.

Beyond Words: Story of Sensitivity Training and the Encounter Movement

Russell Sage Foundation

Book by Back, Kurt W.; American Association for the Advancement of Science

Life Course: Integrative Theories And Exemplary Populations (Aaas Selected Symposium)

Westview Press

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