Psychology and selfhood in the segregated South / Anne C. Rose.

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2009], ©2009.

xiv, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-286) and index.

How Southerners thought about the mind and its ills before psychology -- The promise of the child and the limits of progress -- The troubled personalities of the South -- In the Southern borderland of mind and soul -- The short life of Southern psychology.