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

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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Main Author: Illouz, Eva
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton, 2004.
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