Rethinking Therapeutic Culture

Offering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism, this volume offers a more nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture than the one popularized by critics. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.

About the author

Timothy Aubry is associate professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY. He is the author of Reading as Therapy: What Contemporary Fiction Does for Middle-Class Americans. Trysh Travls is a cultural and literary historian who teaches in the Center for Women's Studies and Gender Research at the University of Florida. She is the author of The Language of the Heart: A Cultural History of the Recovery Movement from Alcoholics Anonymous to Oprah Winfrey.

Summary

Offering both an extended history and a series of critical interventions organized around keywords like pain, privacy, and narcissism, this volume offers a more nuanced, empirically grounded picture of therapeutic culture than the one popularized by critics. It will change the way we've been taught to see the landscape of therapy and self-help.

Product details

• Authors: Timothy Aubry, Timothy Richard Travis Aubry, Timothy Travis Aubry
• Assisted by: Timothy Aubry (Editor), Timothy Richard Aubry (Editor), Trysh Travis (Editor), Travis Trysh (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9780226249933
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24993-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; USA, Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Medical Sociology