Description
Product ID: | 9780520253735 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Saving the Modern Soul |
Subtitle: | Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help |
Authors: | Author: Eva Illouz |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural anthropology, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Psychology, Psychology |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 dissect their emotional experiences and heal trauma. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2008-03-04 |