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

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The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture-from The Sopranos to Oprah, from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. Saving the Modern Soul examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Illouz, Eva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2008]
Temas:
Emotions > Social aspects > United States.
Emotions > Social aspects.
Psychoanalysis and culture > United States.
Psychotherapy > Social aspects > United States.
Social norms > United States.
Social norms.
Social values > United States.
PSYCHOLOGY / General.
american culture.
communicative ethic.
communicative rationality.
cultural sociology.
cultural studies.
emotional control.
emotional experiences.
emotional life.
feminism.
freud.
freudian charisma.
human condition.
identity.
intimacy.
magazine advice column.
marriage.
modern identity.
passion.
popular culture.
private consulting room.
psychoanalysis.
psychology.
pure emotion.
self help culture.
self help.
selfhood.
social organization.
sociology.
suffering.
support group.
therapeutic discourse.
therapeutic therapy.
trauma.
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Sumario:The language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture-from The Sopranos to Oprah, from the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. Saving the Modern Soul examines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide 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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (304 p.)
ISBN:9780520941311
9783110690422
Acceso:restricted access

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