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Therapeutic Society

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1

Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age

by Frank Furedi

69 members

½ 3.7

Member: kiracle

2

The Amazing Results of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

199 members

2 reviews

3.8

Member: kiracle

3

A Life Worth Living: Contributions to Positive Psychology

by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

49 members

4

Member: kiracle

4

I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help

by Wendy Kaminer

156 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kiracle

5

The Seeking Self: The Quest for Self Improvement and the Creation of Personal Suffering

by Richard E. Lind

13 members

Member: kiracle

6

The Myth of Empowerment: Women and the Therapeutic Culture in America

9 members

Member: kiracle

7

Working with Emotional Intelligence

by Daniel Goleman

1,813 members

7 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

8

The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era (Media and Power)

26 members

2 reviews

5

Member: kiracle

9

Yes You Can!: Behind the Hype and Hustle of the Motivation Biz

by Jonathan Black

12 members

2

Member: kiracle

10

American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style (History of Emotions)

by Peter N. Stearns

27 members

2

Member: kiracle

11

Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture

33 members

4.2

Member: kiracle

12

Constructing The Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History Of Psychotherapy

by Philip Cushman

105 members

½ 4.3

Member: kiracle

13

Inventing the Psychological: Toward a Cultural History of Emotional Life in America

by Joel Pfister

17 members

5

Member: kiracle

14

The American Soul Rush: Esalen and the Rise of Spiritual Privilege (Qualitative Studies in Religion)

by Marion Goldman

11 members

Member: kiracle

15

Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

by Barbara Ehrenreich

1,929 members

122 reviews

3.8

Member: kiracle

16

In Therapy We Trust: America's Obsession with Self-Fulfillment

by Eva S. Moskowitz

23 members

Member: kiracle

17

Conspicuous Compassion: Why Sometimes It Really Is Cruel To Be Kind

by Patrick West

17 members

1 review

4

Member: kiracle

18

The Therapeutic Revolution, from Mesmer to Freud

by Leon Chertok

5 members

1 review

Member: kiracle

19

The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry

by Henri F. Ellenberger

311 members

4 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: kiracle

20

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

by Charles Taylor

1,258 members

7 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: kiracle

21

A Critical Study of Self-Help and Self-Improvement Practices: Textual, Discursive, and Ethnographic Perspectives

by Scott Cherry

1 member

Member: kiracle

22

American Therapy: The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

by Jonathan Engel

49 members

3

Member: kiracle

23

Changing Minds: The History of Psychotherapy As an Answer to Human Suffering

by Frank Tallis

10 members

1 review

Member: kiracle

24

A History of Psychiatry: From the Era of the Asylum to the Age of Prozac

by Edward Shorter

171 members

4 reviews

4.2

Member: kiracle

25

Mind Games: American Culture and the Birth of Psychotherapy (Medicine and Society)

15 members

Member: kiracle

26

The Affect Theory Reader

by Melissa Gregg

183 members

3.8

Member: kiracle

27

Constructing the Subject: Historical Origins of Psychological Research (Cambridge Studies in the History of Psychology)

by Kurt Danziger

38 members

1 review

3.8

Member: kiracle

28

Governing the Soul: The Shaping of the Private Self

by Nikolas Rose

70 members

1 review

4

Member: kiracle

29

Half Empty, Half Full: The Psychological Roots of Optimism

by Susan C. Vaughan

41 members

3

Member: kiracle

30

One Nation Under Therapy: How the Helping Culture Is Eroding Self-Reliance

by Christina Hoff Sommers

193 members

4 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

31

Oracle at the Supermarket: The American Preoccupation with Self-Help Books

by Steven Starker

7 members

Member: kiracle

32

A Primer in Positive Psychology

by Christopher Peterson

102 members

1 review

3.8

Member: kiracle

33

Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture: An Interpretive Guide

by Roy M. Anker

3 members

Member: kiracle

34

Self-Help and Popular Religion in Modern American Culture: An Interpretive Guide

by Roy M. Anker

2 members

Member: kiracle

35

Shadow Culture: Psychology and Spirituality in America

by Eugene Taylor

65 members

4

Member: kiracle

36

On the Edge of the Future: Esalen and the Evolution of American Culture

by Jeffrey John Kripal

22 members

Member: kiracle

37

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion

by Jeffrey J. Kripal

122 members

2 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: kiracle

38

Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless

by Steve Salerno

175 members

6 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

39

The Book of Est

by Luke Rhinehart

58 members

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

40

The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education

by Kathryn Ecclestone

23 members

1 review

½ 4.5

Member: kiracle

41

The Elements of Human Potential

by Nevill Drury

19 members

1 review

3

Member: kiracle

42

The Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology

by Shane J. Lopez

19 members

Member: kiracle

43

The Evolution of Self-Help

by M. Archibald

3 members

Member: kiracle

44

by Arthur Janov

285 members

4 reviews

3.2

Member: kiracle

45

The Psychological Mystique

by Stewart Justman

7 members

Member: kiracle

46

Freudian Fraud: The Malignant Effect of Freud's Theory on American Thought and Culture

by E. Fuller Torrey

49 members

4

Member: kiracle

47

The Psychological Society: A Critical Analysis of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychoanalysis and the Psychological Revolution

by Martin L. Gross

31 members

4

Member: kiracle

48

Killing Freud: 20th Century Culture and the Death of Psychoanalysis

by Todd Dufresne

40 members

½ 3.5

Member: kiracle

49

The Therapeutic State: Justifying Government at Century's End

by James L. Nolan Jr.

18 members

1 review

4

Member: kiracle

50

Counseling and the Therapeutic State

by James J. Chriss

2 members

Member: kiracle

51

The Rise of the Therapeutic State

by Andrew J. Polsky

17 members

3

Member: kiracle

52

The Rise of The Therapeutic Society: Psychological Knowledge & the Contradictions of Cultural Change

by Katie Wright

1 member

Member: kiracle

53

The Upstart Spring: Esalen and the Human Potential Movement: The First Twenty Years

by Walter Truett Anderson

33 members

2 reviews

2.8

Member: kiracle

54

Therapeutic Culture: Triumph and Defeat

by Jonathan B. Imber

6 members

Member: kiracle

55

Encounter: a weekend with intimate strangers

10 members

Member: kiracle

56

Therapeutic State: Psychiatry in the Mirror of Current Events

by Thomas Stephen Szasz

16 members

1 review

Member: kiracle

57

Worked Up Selves: Personal Development Workers, Self Work and Therapeutic Cultures

1 member

Member: kiracle

58

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

55 members

3 reviews

½ 4.5

Member: kiracle

59

Fool's Paradise: The Unreal World of Pop Psychology

by Stewart Justman

18 members

3.8

Member: kiracle

60

From Morality to Mental Health: Virtue and Vice in a Therapeutic Culture

by Mike W. Martin

11 members

1 review

Member: kiracle

61

The Social Organization of Work

by Randy Hodson

24 members

3

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June 2012
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