Eva Moskowitz - Historian

Historian

She wrote the book, In Therapy We Trust, a focused history of psychotherapy in popular U.S. culture that argued for moving away from self-centered therapy and toward addressing larger social problems ("we must remain critical of a therapeutics that easily displaces real solutions to pressing social problems."). As a historian, Moskowitz, according to Jesse Eisinger, identified "three tenets: happiness is the supreme goal, problems stem from psychological causes, and those psychological problems are treatable" and labeled this set "the therapeutic gospel, a doctrine so ingrained in American society that few of us consciously recognize it".

She directed and produced a documentary (1997) on post-World War II women's roles. The video Some Spirit in Me (VHS 1993), authored, produced, and directed by Moskowitz, showed how the women's movement in the 1960s–1970s affected "an African-American editor at a high-profile financial magazine, a Jewish housewife, and a Hispanic social worker", among others, as women's roles were changing from those of the 1950s.

She wrote a scholarly study of Betty Friedan's work, one of only a few. It was cited as a "note" study by Deborah Siegel.

She protested a store sign that said that unattended children will be sold as slaves, apparently resulting in the sign's removal.