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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Timothy Aubry, Timothy Richard Travis Aubry, Timothy Travis Aubry
• Con la collaborazione di: Timothy Aubry (Editore), Timothy Richard Aubry (Editore), Trysh Travis (Editore), Travis Trysh (Editore)
• Editore: University Of Chicago Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 05.06.2015
• EAN: 9780226249933
• ISBN: 978-0-226-24993-3
• Pagine: 288
• Serie: emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Opere generiche, enciclopedie; USA, Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, United States of America, USA, Medical Sociology