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

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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 dis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Illouz, Eva
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2004.
Temas:
Social values > United States.
Psychoanalysis and culture > United States.
Psychotherapy > Social aspects > United States.
Emotions > Social aspects > United States.
Social norms > United States.
Valeurs sociales > États-Unis.
Psychothérapie > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Normes sociales > États-Unis.
Emotions > Social aspects
Psychoanalysis and culture
Psychotherapy > Social aspects
Social norms
Social values
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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