The rise of the therapeutic society : psychological knowledge & the contradictions of cultural change. / Katie Wright.

Author: Wright, Kate.

Imprint:Washington, D.C. : New Academia, c2011.

Descriptionix, 279 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Note:The therapeutic society & its discontents -- Modernity, medicine & the problem of "nerves" -- The legitimation of psychological expertise -- Cultural diffusion of the analytic attitude -- Therapy: inside the talking cure -- Reflections on the therapeutic turn.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-269).

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