title: Goodwill in the valley of the shadow: religion, psychotherapy, and politics in Britain from 1945 to the early 1960s.
abstract: The author hypothesizes that the British psychological climate following World War II, from 1945 to approximately 1960, created the conditions for an unusually frank, honest, and collaborative debate on matters related to religion and spirituality generally as well as broader social and political issues. The author first sketches the nature of this climate, before looking more specifically at the interrelationships among religion, psychotherapy and, very briefly, politics during this period. Suggestions regarding the dissipation of this phase after 1960 are examined. The final section considers some qualifications to the case previously outlined and identifies issues and questions that the author feels need addressing further.
authors.forename: Graham
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Richards
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D011057:Politics; D011584:Psychology / Q000266:history*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history*; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D029181:Spirituality; D006113:United Kingdom; D047789:World War II