Title Saving the Modern Soul : Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help

Published Berkeley : University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages) Contents Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Freud: A Cultural Innovator; 3. From Homo economicus to Homo communicans; 4. The Tyranny of Intimacy; 5. Triumphant Suffering; 6. A New Emotional Stratification?; 7. Conclusion: Institutional Pragmatism in the Study of Culture; Notes; Index Summary Examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. This book examines a range of sources to show how self-help culture has transformed contemporary emotional life and how therapy complicates individuals' lives even as it claims to dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma Notes Print version record Subject Social values -- United States Psychoanalysis and culture -- United States Psychotherapy -- Social aspects -- United States Emotions -- Social aspects -- United States Social norms -- United States Emotions -- Social aspects Psychoanalysis and culture Psychotherapy -- Social aspects Social norms Social values United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520941311 0520941314

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