{"product_id":"saving-the-modern-soul-therapy-emotions-and-the-culture-of-self-help-paperback","title":"Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self-Help - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEva Illouz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language of psychology is all-pervasive in American culture-from \u003ci\u003eThe Sopranos \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eOprah, \u003c\/i\u003efrom the abundance of self-help books to the private consulting room, and from the support group to the magazine advice column. \u003ci\u003eSaving the Modern Soul \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the profound impact of therapeutic discourse on our lives and on our contemporary notions of identity. Eva Illouz plumbs today's particular cultural moment to understand how and why psychology has secured its place at the core of modern identity. She examines a wide 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tour de force of critical insights and broad scholarship that provides a rich banquet of ideas for those interested in a broader understanding of the modern soul. It is one of those rare books that forces the reader, whether he agrees or disagrees, to think in new and creative ways.--Charles W. Smith, author of \u003ci\u003eSuccess and Survival on Wall Street\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Eva Illouz has made another seminal contribution to cultural sociology. Forty years ago, Philip Rieff announced the advent of a new 'therapeutic culture' wherein self-realization, once achieved as a byproduct of commitment to a communal purpose, is pursued as an end in itself. How the therapeutic culture affects selfhood, on the other hand, has remained a mystery. To clarify the matter, Illouz shows how therapeutic values insinuate themselves into the corporate world, the state, mass media, civil society, the family, and the bedroom. Eva Illouz has given to our generation the fullest and clearest account of therapeutic individualism ever written.\"--Barry Schwartz, author of \u003ci\u003eAbraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Located within a cultural history of introspection, Eva Illouz has given us a highly original treatise-a cultural critique-of therapeutic discourse as one of the principal historical formations, languages, and codes that both articulate and shape what modern selfhood is today. An important work in cultural sociology and the sociology of emotions, Illouz will change many of our ideas about the emotions and late capitalism.\"--E. Doyle McCarthy, author of \u003ci\u003eKnowledge as Culture: The New Sociology of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEva Illouz\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality. She is also the Academic Director of the Program in Cultural Studies. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eConsuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e (UC Press; honorable mention, Outstanding Contribution Award, American Sociological Association, 2000); The Culture of Capitalism (in hebrew); \u003ci\u003eOprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e (Best Book Award, American Sociological Association, 2005); and \u003ci\u003eCold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 8.94 x 5.97 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 04, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390905737318,"sku":"9780520253735","price":72.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/SklZU085RWpJeDB5UFVva3kzUFdaZz09.webp?v=1775123423","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/saving-the-modern-soul-therapy-emotions-and-the-culture-of-self-help-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}