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Control and consolation in American culture and politics : rhetoric of therapy /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cloud, Dana L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, [1998]
Series:Rhetoric & society (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Social problems > United States > Psychological aspects.
Psychotherapy > Social aspects > United States.
Psychotherapy > Political aspects > United States.
Psychoanalysis and culture > United States.
Social control > United States.
Rhetoric and psychology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on therapy and the therapeutic
  • Perspectives on the therapeutic
  • The therapeutic in history : inventing and discplining the modern self
  • Family therapies : from the White House to the hood
  • The support group nation
  • The therapeutics of feminism : from self-esteem to suicide
  • The new age of post-marxism
  • Conclusion : antidotes to the therapeutic hegemony.